To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce amendments to the Employment Rights Bill to clarify that foster carers are not employees.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to match-fund the incentive costs of Stepladder Plus, a money management and learning programme for 15–17 year olds in care operated by the Share Foundation.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the proposal by the Share Foundation to introduce a 'Default Withdrawal at 21' scheme for HMRC-allocated child trust funds.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve services that aim to prevent children being taken into the care of local authorities.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children who are taken into the care of local authorities.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children who frequently fail to attend school.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the support given to unpaid carers.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend to provide greater support to unpaid carers in England; and, if so, what additional support they intend to provide.
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of children in care in England.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of times children in care must change school.
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to reduce the number of children in care experiencing multiple placements.
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to improve the education of children in care.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report from the Local Government Information Unit, The State of Local Government Finance in England 2024, published on 28 February, which suggests that half the councils in England will...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that young children in public care are not placed in unregistered accommodation.
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to achieve a better distribution of residential care homes for children so that they are not placed great distances from their families, friends and school.
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking in response to the final report of the Competition and Markets Authority's children’s social care market study published on 10 March 2022, particularly with regard to the finding on excessive cha...
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to tackle the increase of children being taken into public care.
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that non-custodial sentences command public and judicial confidence by ensuring that, when offenders undertake such interventions, they are demanding, well organised, purposeful, and wit...
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide support to local authorities in financial difficulty.
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Carers UK report State of Caring 2023 — The impact of caring on: health, published in November; and what steps they intend to take in response.