The data makes it clear: current policy is failing vulnerable young people. Urgent reform is needed to ensure every child receives the care they deserve. #KeepCaringTo18
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With 4 in 10 children aged 16-17 now in care-less accommodation, the government’s assertion that it only be used in “exceptional circumstances” couldn’t be further from the truth.
Read about our open letter to @JoshMacAlister ⬇️.
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Article 39 has sent an open letter to @JoshMacAlister, urging an end to care-less accommodation for 16-17 year olds.
No loving parent would leave their GCSE aged child in a caravan alone, or in a hostel with vulnerable adults. The risks are obvious.
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Parliament’s Education Committee says all children in care must receive care where they live, which adds considerable weight to @article39.bsky.social’s longstanding #KeepCaringTo18 campaign: article39.org.uk/2025/07/10/p...
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Great this children’s home is to be run like a family home.
But how many families plan for their children to leave home aged 16?
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NEW: Government urged to end the wilful neglect of teenagers in care. Timeline showing how last government reversed the strong, cross-party political consensus that children in care aged 16 and 17 should not have to fend for themselves.
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NEW: Government urged to end the wilful neglect of teenagers in care. Timeline showing how last government reversed the strong, cross-party political consensus that children in care aged 16 and 17 should not have to fend for themselves.
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🤔If the last government really only wanted 'some' 16 and 17 year-olds in care to go without care where they live, why did it give local authorities £142million and a national charity nearly £1million to implement its care-less policy?
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You can do.
1. Support @article_39’s #KeepCaringto18 campaign: https://article39.org.uk/keepcaringforchildrenupto18/
2. If you work at a university, advocate for care leavers. Ask what leaders are doing to support them.
3. Write to your MP demanding that 16/17 year olds in care...
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It was obvious all along that the radical restructuring of England’s children’s care system - making properties without care a regulated placement for the first time - would serve business interests very well.
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It’s a relief that there is no promise to further expand care-less accommodation for children in care aged 16 and 17. Perhaps commitment to invest in children’s homes marks departure with the disreputable legal and policy changes of recent years.
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❗️We're waiting to hear whether any political party will commit to making sure that every child in care actually receives care.
Back in 2022, the then PM denied age-based legal and policy change, after care experienced campaigners delivered petition to No. 10.
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⬇️ NEW #KeepCaringTo18 postcard.
Who could have predicted in years gone by that here we would be - in 2024 - having to make the case for children who are in care to actually receive care where they live.
But this is where we are.
Politicians please take notice, and act.
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Glad to see @BASW_UK’s manifesto focus on care-experience, particularly:
📍Protected chatacteristics
📍#KeepCaringto18
In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to ask for the latter; it’s the bare minimum. But whilst teens in care continue to be abandoned, we must keep speaking up.
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Anyway, Samantha Morton gets that denying actual care to children who are in care is wrong. This was her speaking to BBC two years ago ⬇️
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We’re still campaigning. We find allies wherever we go, because to any decent person it’s obvious that abandoning 16/17yos in hostels isn’t “nurturing independence” but institutional neglect.
We’ll keep going until every child in care receives just that - care.
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Two years ago today, a group of care-experienced people took the #KeepCaringto18 petition to Downing Street.
The timeline of events since then is too depressing to note in full; the gov continues to turn its back on 16-17 year olds in care.
But for now I’m remembering the 10k
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If you believe all children in care should receive care, please join our #KeepCaringTo18 campaign.
Over 70 organisations and thousands of individuals fighting for change:
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& yes, that was the High Court hearing where counsel acting for DfE described #KeepCaringTo18 as a "catchy slogan".
@JohnRadoux wrote about it here:
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⚠️ Care-less supported accommodation is now an official part of the regulated children's care system.
This is a radical restructuring of the care system with much weaker requirements on owners/providers & poor regulatory oversight.
More:
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The law changes on Saturday 28 October 2023, but it leaves thousands of children in care without care where they live.
Meet the people leading a national campaign to fix this:
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This week we responded to Ofsted's proposals for inspecting care-less accommodation for children in care and care leavers aged 16 & 17.
Our full submission is here:
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So what can be done?
1) Support @article_39 to #KeepCaringto18
2) Write to your MP demanding the same level of care you'd expect for your own child (see @EmmaLewellBuck's work)
3) Support care experienced students in your school/university
Solidarity with care leavers today.
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NEW report from County Councils Network & others expressing concern about lack of funding to implement care-less accommodation.
Look behind headlines and see again how recent government policy has woefully let down older children in care.
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You can find our full response here:
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DfE consultation response here:
This is a major, structural and ideological change to children's care system. For decades, government policy has progressively moved towards care system emulating what happens in loving families. Not now.
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If you believe every child in care should receive care where they live*, plse join our #KeepCaringTo18 campaign.
*4 in 10 children in care aged 16 & 17 don’t receive care where they live. Absence of care for this age group now backed by law & gov policy.
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If you have 5 minutes to spare to help fight this injustice, you can:
📍Support @article_39
📍Ask your MP to sign EDM1006
Until this is fixed, the government is not worthy of the title corporate parent.
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