Keith and Kathleen Parry have fostered around 600 children since they began working for Manchester Council in 1961. They received the award from the local authority at a ceremony in March.
Their daughter Karen said that as a child she remembered her mother always prescribed 'Nursery World, Nulon hand cream and Nuttall's Mintoes'.
Mr and Mrs Parry, who are now both 73 years old, have also adopted five children while raising four children of their own.
They have looked after many children with disabilities, including one severely handicapped baby who was only expected to survive for one year as she suffered from a condition called Pateu syndrome. But she lived to the age of ten and even began to walk.
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