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Commons Chamber
Renters (Reform) Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) leavers are struggling to find suitable accommodation in those early years after leaving care. - Speech Link
2: None in the care system and care leavers is not on. - Speech Link
3: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) provision in chapter 3 to care leavers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Wood of Anfield (Lab - Life peer) The organisation Kinship estimates that, for every 1,000 children looked after in well-supported kinship - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Some 25% of the prison population are former care leavers and 25% of those sleeping rough have been in - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham (Bshp - Bishops) Its looked-after numbers have been relatively stable for the past four or five years. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) people—now numbering, shockingly, around 84,000—are actually looked after and cared for.As the noble - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Valentine (XB - Life peer) A particular concern are care leavers, of whom around one-third become homeless in their first three - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) It is vital that the corporate parenting role undertaken with looked-after children does not hit a cliff - Speech Link
3: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) leavers and students.Government housing targets have not changed. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) leavers ending up homeless. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Dean Russell (Con - Watford) It meant that especially during covid, when this initiative started, patients were able to be looked - Speech Link
2: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) skills that have not even been invented yet for our school leavers. - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) how hard that makes it for some parents to care for their children safely. - Speech Link
4: Keir Mather (Lab - Selby and Ainsty) How can British workers be productive if they have to leave the workforce to care for parents or children - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) If levelling up is to become a reality, the number of mature students who missed out as school leavers - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) However, it looked as if having been to university made them more resilient. - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Con - Life peer) This really matters if we care about levelling up. - Speech Link
4: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Graduates looking to use their skills in hospitals, SEN schools and care homes would struggle to secure - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) the education and careers that our children and young people deserve. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) Some 40% of children are in relative poverty after housing costs, and it is no surprise that the average - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) There are opportunities to support care leavers which, frankly, do not cost much money, particularly - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kinship Care Strategy - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) We have a perverse situation in which only families of previously looked-after children will be able - Speech Link
2: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) are growing up in kinship care, with over half being looked after by grandparents. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The problem was that in those years when she looked after her daughter, she suffered enormous financial - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) We know that looked-after children get those benefits, but kinship children do not, and it was not in - Speech Link
5: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) child to offer a safe, stable and loving alternative to becoming looked-after. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) So many operations could have taken place, and so many children could have not missed out on school and - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (Con - Life peer) that the people who come have partners, get married, have children, and need education and health services - Speech Link
3: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) In 2021, the industry looked into what was causing vets to leave the industry. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) friend Lord Balfe mentioned looking after the workers and their dignity, giving them compassion and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
School Attendance (Duties of Local Authorities and Proprietors of Schools) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) It looked at the relationship between attendance and GCSE results in one of its high-performing schools - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) I am extremely grateful to all those who are experts in education, and who care so deeply for children - Speech Link
3: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) them farther away from the education they deserve.In Stoke-on-Trent, we have the highest number of looked-after - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) They all care passionately for children and young people, and those who are educating them in their constituencies - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) over this academic year.Richmond is also using money from the household support fund to support looked-after - Speech Link
2: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) What are they after? They are after food. It is 2024, and we have people pleading—begging—for food. - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (Lab - Wansbeck) These people are after food; they are after soap powder; they are after sanitary products. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am very supportive of it, but I think it is time that that was looked at. - Speech Link