The Fostering Network, Voice, and The Adolescent and Children's Trust (Tact) are preparing to lobby MPs to include the change in the Children and Young Persons Bill, which is about to be debated in the House of Commons.
The charities want children to be able to stay in foster care up to the age of 21 and not be forced to leave before they are ready. Tact is sending postcards to MPs asking them about the age they left home to get them thinking about the issue.
Adam Hug, the Fostering Network's policy and campaigns manager, said: "What the government has come up with since the Care Matters paper is a number of pilots. We want to see a commitment from the government to roll out these pilots across England."
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