Rejected petition Minimum Standard Accommodation for Care Leavers

The Commons Education Select Committee says B&B accommodation is being used to accommodate young people in care [Care Leavers] & is "threatening & frightening" & should only be used in emergency.A

Parliament has a responsibility to ensure that all care leavers are provided with appropriate & secure accommodation.

In 2010, MP, Helen Southworth, placed a proposed bill before the Commons designed to ensure that all Care Leavers be given a minimum standard of accommodation, with a duty placed upon local authorities to provide this. Due to a lack of time & MPs voting not to allow it through automatically to a 3rd reading, the bill disappeared.

Action: Care Leavers are still being placed in inadequate accommodations upon leaving the care system, we, the undersigned, call for a new bill, which places statutory obligations upon local authorities to provide an agreed minimum standard of accommodation for care leavers.