Select committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 47
2nd Report - Human Rights of Children in the Social Care System in England
Published 27 Aug 2026
Addressed to Ministry of Justice
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The government must urgently explore concrete options for addressing discrimination against people with care experience, including the provision of human rights training to those involved in providing public services, with a particular focus on tackling discrimination, as well as improvements to mechanisms for holding public bodies to account when discrimination against care leavers takes place. (Recommendation, Paragraph 229) Complaints mechanisms
From: Human Rights (Joint Committee), 2nd Report - Human Rights of Children in the Social Care System in England (HC 161), 27 August 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 27 October 2026, 5 days ago.