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Manchester, England
Joined December 2011
🚨 New blog: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report Stage Update👇 togethertrust.org.uk/news/re… 🧵
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📣 Get involved: ✔️ Sign up for campaign updates secure.togethertrust.org.uk/… ✔️ Email your MP and demand an end to illegal homes for children in care: secure.togethertrust.org.uk/…
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🔉We welcome the government’s announcement: Care leavers will receive free prescriptions, NHS dental care, eye checks up to age 25. ‼️But delivery matters: cuts, staff shortages, poor signposting limit, impact. Awareness and practical access are essential for real change.‼️
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👉We support @barnardos call for a National Care Offer: A legal obligation for the Secretary of State to set minimum standards of support for care leavers - so entitlements don’t depend on postcode.
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🆘 Hundreds of children in care in England are still being placed in illegal settings. ✉️Email your MP: shorturl.at/kfhLm @ChildrensComm warns many spend months - and in some cases years - in unregistered, placements. 🔗assets.childrenscommissioner…
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The Government is planning to grant Ofsted new powers to fine providers operating unregistered children's homes under the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. But this is NOT enough.
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We’re calling for a clear, timebound plan to phase-out unregistered homes for children in care, and for a guarantee that every child in care receives regulated care up to at least age 18.
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