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Lib Dems seek to raise leaving residential care age to 21

The Liberal Democrats will push for the age young people leave residential care to be raised to 21 if it is in government after the general election, a senior figure in the party has said.

Speaking to CYP Now as part of an interview due to be published next Tuesday (28 April), Lord Storey, the party’s education spokesman in the House of Lords, said although the policy does not appear in the party’s manifesto, it is something it wants to implement.

“I think sometimes we get fixated on manifestos,” he said.

“These things are not always in the manifesto but if there is a will for it, it can happen and will happen.”

“I think it will happen.

“Once you have argued successfully for 21 for those children in foster care it has to be the same for those in residential care as well.”

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