• Re-open / new build all closed down Youth Centres.
• Fully fund Youth Services.
• Nationalise all child protection services.
• Deliver early protection to victims of abuse by strengthening mandatory reporting and guaranteeing allegations will be reported and action taken to make children safe.
• Ensure children in care homes are not used by gangs to burgle or under age sex work.
• Refocus social care to work with families to prevent children going into care.
• We will support Kinship Care by the extended family, instead of state care in a care home or fostering.
• End commercial fostering agencies.
• Housing benefit from age 16.
• Build more properly affordable social housing, of one-bedroomed terraced homes for single person occupancy.
• Bring European Convention on the Rights of the Child into UK domestic law.
• For people on benefits and very low wages, fund child burial fees for bereaved parents.