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Care Leavers: Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help care leavers to secure employment following education.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help care leavers to secure employment following education.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The department is committed to tackling stigma and discrimination faced by care-experienced children and young people. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will introduce corporate parenting responsibilities for government departments and other relev...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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