'They don’t understand parents like myself' - The voters who do not expect anything to change

Polling day is now very close. The six-week election campaign was triggered by Rishi's announcement in the May rain. It looks set to finish in unseasonal 17-degree July cloud.

On the campaign trail, politicians have talked housing, pensions, and tax burdens. There's been a lot of debate on migration, D-Day commemorations, and the NHS' future.

But the campaign hasn't heard much mention of issues which matter to parents. Topics like education funding, child mental health provision, and anti-social behaviour have not dominated the headlines since May 22.

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However, parents make up a huge majority of voters - two in five according to the Office for National Statistics. In a campaign where parents have been largely overlooked, the Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to mums at an Oldham high school which takes in pupils from three Greater Manchester constituencies.

The school is St John Henry Newman Catholic College, on Broadway. The constituencies are Oldham West and Royton, Oldham East and Saddleworth, and Manchester Central.

The first mum we speak to is Sarah Grimes, a 33-year-old single mum who is a train station manager. She has an 11-year-old son, called Connor, and they live in Limeside — where Sarah grew up.

Sarah and Connor use the NHS, with her lad accessing child and adolescent mental health services (CAHMS) at the moment. That's why Sarah is hoping for more mental health service funding, after Connor ‘got left for six months without an appointment’ on the NHS.

She explained: “His mental health massively deteriorated [during that time]. For myself, I work full time and his hospital appointments are not made for