Greater Manchester leaders have signed a joint pledge to commit to supporting serving and former Armed Forces personnel, reservists and their families in the city-region.
The Greater Manchester Armed Forces Covenant Roadmap – signed by Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham; GMP Chief Constable, Stephen Watson; and GMFRS Assistant Chief Fire Officer, Sarah Nattrass – sets out the ambition for making the city-region the best place in the UK for former and serving service personnel to live.
GMCA has worked closely with the Ministry of Defence to develop this roadmap and to highlight the work that can be done through local government partnerships to achieve our joint goals with the Armed Forces community.
The first Armed Forces Covenant was signed in 2014, with this roadmap setting out the steps to take its success further.
Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said:
“Our Armed Forces community are incredibly important to us and have too often wrongly been an afterthought in policy making in the past. That is why Greater Manchester puts such importance on our Armed Forces Covenant to make our city-region the best place in the UK for our serving and former service men and women to live.
“I’m proud to re-sign the covenant and continue our trailblazing work, alongside the incredible work our fire service and GMP are doing, to ensure that our Armed Forces family are a central pillar to our transformative Live Well ambitions.”
The signing of the roadmap highlights the covenant’s importance in the GMCA’s decision-making, to deliver the best outcomes for residents in the city-region, and is a key component of Greater Manchester’s Live Well agenda.
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