The group is urging the government to recognise care experience as a protected characteristic and implement policies to create better outcomes for care-experienced people.
It will showcase what is happening in the 107 councils that have already adopted a motion to treat care experience as if it were a protected characteristic, according to leaving care campaigner Terry Galloway, who was at Westminster for the launch on Wednesday (11 December)
The campaign's core focus is to end the disparity and inequality faced by young care leavers as The Office of National Statistics found that 38% of care leavers aged 19-21 were not in education, employment or training (NEET) and were more likely to encounter the Criminal Justice System.
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