Question follow-through · 114950
Employment Schemes: Care Leavers
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support tailored, small-cohort employability programmes for care-experienced young people that include one-to-one career coaching, work experience opportunities an
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 2 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to support tailored, small-cohort employability programmes for care-experienced young people that include one-to-one career coaching, work experience opportunities an
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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2 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Department is committed to improving employment outcomes for care‑experienced young people and ensuring they can access the personalised support they need to move into and stay in work. Our new programme, Connect to Work is a £1 billion voluntary, loc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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