Today, we are announcing that Greater Manchester’s higher education institutions and the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham have signed a flagship agreement that will see us deepen and widen our collaboration to support the city region in meeting its ambitions to be the best place to grow up, get on and grow old.

We worked with the independent consultancy and British Polling Council member Public First to poll our residents in a representative sample across all ten authorities in Greater Manchester to find out how we are viewed. We have published the full findings to share what we have learned, and to show how we will reflect on these when drawing up our CUA.