A major Greater Manchester MP has backed a campaign to keep the city’s homeless children in school.

The Manchester Evening News is calling on mayor Andy Burnham to introduce a free bus pass for children placed in temporary homeless accommodation that is more than 30 minutes’ walk from their school.

Often, families who are homeless are placed miles away from home by stretched councils . They can only get free transport if they move more than two miles from home and there is no ‘suitable school’ nearer.

That means homeless parents face a simple choice: Fork out for buses they previously didn’t need to pay for, or move their children to a different school, if places are available.

That’s a choice the Manchester Evening News believes no parent should have to make. And it’s somethin

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