Care Leavers: Death
Commons · Question 901344 · Tabled 8 Sep 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 14 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Darren Paffey
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of early deaths of care leavers.
Answer
Answered by Josh MacAlister, 14 Sep 2026
I commissioned the Review of Early Care Leaver Deaths because I wanted the whole country to see the tragedies that I read every fortnight. I want to thank Ashley John-Baptiste and Clare Chamberlain for their important work on this review.Their central fin...