Question follow-through · 21104
Foster Care
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make care experience a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make care experience a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises that care leavers have some of the worst long-term life outcomes in society. We are therefore committed to ensuring children leaving care have stable homes, access to health services, support to build lifelong loving relationship...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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