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Children in Care: Equality

Asked by Manuela PerteghellaLiberal DemocratWomen and EqualitiesTabled Answered 5 November 2025UIN 906216

The question

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that young people with care-experience have equal access to support services promoting wellbeing, opportunity and inclusion.

Answered by Olivia Bailey

The Ministerial Board on Care Leavers, chaired by the Secretary of State for Education, works to identify how each department can respond to the unique challenges that care leavers face across all aspects of their lives – opening up, for example, a world of employment opportunities by adding care leavers to social value requirements for government procurement.

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