MUMS and dads in Brandlesholme will be asked to air their grievances after the district was chosen as one of just three to take part in a nationwide parenting study.

A share of £11,000 from the Coventry-based Community Education Development Centre will be used to pay for a project worker to ask parents about gaps in service provision for children and young people.

The centre is studying districts where youth provision is deemed inadequate, but in which no extra government funding is received.

Districts in Kent and Stratford have also been drafted into the Home Office-funded project, which will see issues such as nursery and after-school care go under the microscope.

The plans were outlined to the audience at a meeting of Bury West Area Board by charity development officer Gailyn Groves.

She said: "We will be working closely with parents and asking what their needs are and whether or not services are accessible.

"Brandlesholme has been selected because it is an area with a certain amount of disadvantage which does not receive any extra funding."

Welcoming the project, ward councillor Yvonne Creswell said: "I am absolutely delighted that at long last Brandlesholme is getting some help."

"There are services that we desperately need and we will be happy to work with this project."