Member

These provisions should include the following specific new entitlements and services for young care leavers aged 18 to 25: all public bodies to offer a specific care leaver internship scheme using the civil service care leaver internship model; the local authority or corporate partner to act as a guarantor and provide rental deposit; free NHS prescriptions; a dedicated mental health offer in every local authority; for those eligible for universal credit, the rate should be the same as for those aged over 25; and local authorities to create and embed local protocols for reducing the criminalisation of children in care and care leavers. The Government are serious about improving the lot of care leavers. This amendment would make it even better.