CYP Now - Care leavers champion protected characteristic campaign at Downing Street

Young people visited Downing Street to urge the Prime Minister to make care experience a protected characteristic, as part of a nationwide campaign to protect care leavers from discrimination.

Care-experienced young people from across the country delivered the campaign report to Downing Street. Pictures: Terry Galloway

Care-experienced young people and campaigners delivered the campaign’s new report to Downing Street this week (14 June), calling on the government to introduce legislation to make care experience a protected characteristic under equality law.

The policy was included in the Care Review’s recommendations, but the government failed to take it forward in its strategy to reform children’s social care, which was published in February this year.

However, the protected characteristic campaign, led by care-experienced campaigner Terry Galloway, has seen more than 30 councils pass motions to treat care experience as a protected characteristic, even without government legislation.

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