This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Review the Care Leaver Strategy and implement opportunity-based changes.
We want the Government to review the care leavers strategy and consider implementing:
- Extending the age of housing support/funding for those in education to 25
- Making care leaver housing providers more accountable for shortcomings in accommodation
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Having spent a large time of my life in the care of the local authority I am saddened but unfortunately not shocked at the unnecessary hurdles that care leavers and looked after children face compared to their peers. I currently face the prospect of losing my accommodation post-21 despite the fact I am in full - time further education. My LA are no longer obliged to pay costs. Housing is obsimal and neglectful. The statistical outcomes for care leavers are shocking
This has to change.
Now.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months