Local elections were held in every council area in Scotland, Wales, London and many parts of England on 5 May while Northern Ireland elected its new assembly.
Ahead of the vote, 105 candidates pledged to propose a motion urging Care Review chair Josh MacAlister to recommend to the government that care experience becomes a protected characteristic in law.
This would mean care-experienced people would be protected by certain types of discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.
Some 25 candidates who made the pledge have now been elected across 18 councils in the UK, three of whom have experience of care and one who has been both a foster carer and an adoptive parent.
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