Children in care are facing systematic discrimination from the organisations that are supposed to care for them, according to the Children's Rights Alliance for England.
The alliance's national co-ordinator Mike Lindsay has collated evidence of discrimination against looked-after children and care leavers from a variety of organisations.
He is now urging that the Equality Bill addresses discrimination against looked-after children and care leavers as it makes its way through Parliament.
One striking example of discrimination in schools involved a boy in care being excluded for playing football indoors when the three others playing with him were not. The school told him the others could not be excluded because their parents were at work all day.
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