Some 300 jobs are expected to go this year as leavers are not replaced.
A recent study found that less than 3% of care leavers go to university.
Only 6% of care leavers go on to university, compared to 38% of other young people.
In parts of Barrow-in-Furness for example, less than 16% of school leavers go to university, compared with a national average of 31%.
Canada has, according to the Tories, eradicated the educational attainment gap between ethnic groups so that all but a handful of school leavers go to college.
Only 11% of looked-after children in England achieved five GCSEs at grades A* to C in 2005, compared with 56% of all children, while less than 5% of care leavers go on to university.
If the government is serious about being a better parent and changing outcomes so that care leavers go on to college and work, rather than prisons and park benches, they need to train more Annies and invest in top quality social workers.
About 80% of Shanghai school leavers go to university compared to an overall average of 24% in China.
Only 7percentt of care leavers go on to higher education, compared to 40percentt of those who've grown up in a traditional family setting.
2016 Around 40% of England's school-leavers go to university.
