Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) when today’s school leavers were just starting out in reception, the same league tables placed the equivalent - Speech Link
2: Vicky Ford (Con - Chelmsford) had their February half-term a week after the rest of the country, which gave families a bit more flexibility - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) education, health and care plans, but it is important that we look at the wider support. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) who cannot live at home—care leavers, for example—and need longer tenancies than an academic year. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) majority of landlords demonstrate a duty of care in line with legal obligations, and the vast majority - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) The consultation looked at the problems with the current system and at streamlining redress schemes and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) neighbourhoods, and the NHS took care of us and kept us healthy. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mike Amesbury (Lab - Weaver Vale) There was a reference to care leavers and council tax and so forth. - Speech Link
2: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) Lady rightly referred to care leavers who are rough sleeping, and I will talk about them in more depth.We - Speech Link
3: Felicity Buchan (Con - Kensington) the number of care leavers living in safe, suitable accommodation and to reduce the rate of homelessness - Speech Link
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
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
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
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
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
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
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