EDM: Commemorating National Care Leaver’s Month November 2025

Commemorating National Care Leaver’s Month November 2025

Tabled by Tom Morrison (Liberal Democrat) 22 signatures

The motion

That this House notes the importance of the first National Care Leavers Month in November 2025 and celebrates that a month is dedicated to this important cause; acknowledges the difficulties and inequities that care leavers face, including a cliff edge of support and services that disappear suddenly, a postcode lottery of support, and discrimination both during education and beyond; further notes with concern that 30% of 18-year-old and 39% of 19–21-year-old care leavers were not in education, employment or training as of March 2024 compared with 15% of all 18-year-olds in England; also notes with great concern that the Government did not accept the independent Care Review’s 2022 recommendation to make care experience a protected characteristic; urges the government to pass new legislation to give care leavers the equity they deserve, including broadening corporate parenting responsibility, taking steps to reduce discrimination including making care a protected characteristic under the Equality Act; notes that Haringey Council was the first council in the country to call for care leaver to be a protected characteristic, after unanimously passing a motion proposed by Liberal Democrat councillors; and celebrates that over 90 councils including Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council in 2023 have since passed motions to acknowledge care experience as a protected characteristic and calls for more to do so.

Signatories (22)