Rebecca and Fay say they've faced discrimination because of being in the care system.
Rebecca and Fay have been working on a campaign to make being in care a protected characteristicA group of people who have been in care want to make it illegal to discriminate against them.
More than 30 councils across England and Scotland have made the change - but the group want it to be the law so are taking a petition to Downing Street.She was in care growing up and says she came across it when applying for a job at a factory. "And from that she just went quite cold with the interview and she just did not want to engage after that.""I knew straight away that it was from saying that I was in care," she says.Fay is handing in the petition to Number 10 later as part of a group led by campaigner Terry Galloway.
"We're not all naughty kids. A lot of kids that you do meet in care just want friends and things like that.
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