A campaigner who grew up in children’s homes has welcomed the commitment by two Greater Manchester councils to protect youngsters in care from discrimination. Salford-born Terry Galloway was speaking the day after his home city council and Trafford council agreed to add cared for children to the ‘protected characteristics’ in their equality impact assessments.
This category now sits alongside anti-discrimination laws relating to age, gender assignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sex. Salford city councillors yesterday approved a resolution enshrining the policy followed later in the day by Trafford - the 20th such council to do so.
Terry, who now lives in Nottingham, but was in Greater Manchester to meet councillors, is a longstanding campaigner against discrimination affecting children and adults who are or who have been in the care system. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “By the time I left the care system, I had lived in more than 100 places.
