North Wales Assembly Member Mark Isherwood has this week called on the Welsh Government to ensure that young people who leave care continue to receive appropriate support until they reach 25.
Raising the matter with the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children, Carl Sargeant AM, in the Assembly Chamber this week he said:
“Given the three inequalities in particular identified in the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ ‘Hidden Ambitions’ report, which said that young people leaving care ‘need the same sort of opportunities, assistance and support that all parents try to give their children as they start to make their way in the world’, what steps are you taking to ensure that those in social care who reach the age of 18 are still entitled to retain such care whilst studying A-levels? And what proposals do you have to ensure that young people who leave care continue to receive appropriate support until they reach 25 - I think two of those three key calls in that report?”
The Cabinet Secretary said the Welsh Government “are working through that piece of work that the Children’s Commissioner did.”