Question follow-through · 902573
Carers: Equality
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making care experience a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making care experience a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Equality Act 2010 already protects many care leavers under the indirect discrimination provisions, because a disproportionately high number are likely to be from particular sub groups within characteristics such as race, disability and age. This Gover...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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