Submitted on Thursday 17th July 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Minimum Standard Accommodation for Care Leavers
The Commons Education Select Committee says B&B accommodation is being used to accommodate young people in care [Care Leavers] & is "threatening & frightening" & should only be used in emergency.A
Parliament has a responsibility to ensure that all care leavers are provided with appropriate & secure accommodation.
In 2010, MP, Helen Southworth, placed a proposed bill before the Commons designed to ensure that all Care Leavers be given a minimum standard of accommodation, with a duty placed upon local authorities to provide this. Due to a lack of time & MPs voting not to allow it through automatically to a 3rd reading, the bill disappeared.
Action: Care Leavers are still being placed in inadequate accommodations upon leaving the care system, we, the undersigned, call for a new bill, which places statutory obligations upon local authorities to provide an agreed minimum standard of accommodation for care leavers.
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