Member

Amendment 106 from the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester seeks to highlight the disparities between care leaver outcomes and those of their peers in the general population. I wholeheartedly agree with him that care leavers experience deep disparities across all aspects of their lives. We have heard examples today. Care leavers are, for example, three times more likely than their peers to be not in education, employment or training, as we have heard; nine times more likely to experience homelessness; nearly three times more likely to report that they are struggling financially; and, most distressingly, four to five times more likely to attempt suicide.