Support for Care Experienced Students

We understand that navigating the application process and adjusting to life at university can be particularly challenging for care experienced students and want to support you and ensure your time at university is as stress free and successful as possible.

‘Care experienced’ may be defined as any individual who has lived in alternative care (i.e., not under parental care) for any amount of time before the age of 18.

Being care experienced means you will have spent time with foster carers, in residential care, in special care, or you were adopted. It can also mean you lived with relatives or friends in a formal or informal arrangement because you were unable to live with your parents; this is called kinship care.

Please find below a guide to the supports available for Care Experienced Students:

Helpful Links

• Student Services 
• Student Advisors 
• 1916 Bursary 
• Financial Aid Fund