Member

Amendment 96 is about honouring the voices of care-experienced people across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who are actively engaged in campaigns to see care experience properly recognised in public decision-making. This amendment would not create a new protected characteristic but would require care-experienced people to be considered within equality impact assessments. Care-experienced people have told us clearly that policies and services, as I said earlier, are too often designed without reference to their lived experiences, despite the fact that the outcomes of this group are constantly poor. As one contributor put it, “If policies continue to be designed without our input, they will continue to fail us”.