Care-Experienced Students

We are committed to making sure education is accessible for everyone and we offer a range of support services to help you successfully gain your qualifications and progress. We understand that students who are in, or have been in the care system may face additional challenges in their home life and education, so we will work with you to ensure you have a tailored support plan in place.

Our Statement of Offer

Purpose

Education providers play a crucial role in supporting care-experienced children to maintain good health, stay safe, enjoy life, achieve their potential, contribute positively to society, and attain economic wellbeing, aligning with the principles of Every Child Matters.

Principles

Our approach to supporting the educational achievement of care-experienced students is based on the following principles:

Prioritising education
Promoting attendance
Targeting support
Having high expectations
Promoting inclusion through challenging and changing attitudes
Achieving stability and continuity
Early intervention and priority action
Listening to students
Promoting health and wellbeing
Reducing exclusions and promoting stability

Practice

As for all students, we are committed to helping every care-experienced student to achieve the highest standards they can, including supporting aspirations to achieve in further and higher education and their future career.

We will:

Work in partnership with carers, social workers and external relevant professionals and use the expertise of college professionals for in-house referrals
Ensure a designated staff member for care-experienced students is identified and enabled to carry out the monitoring and support of our care-experienced students
Support the Personal Education Plan (PEP), working with relevant college colleagues to ensure the plan represents an accurate reflection of the students' progress and aspirations.

The statement of offer links with other related NCG and college policies including our care-experienced student policy

Care Leaver Covenant

Spectra

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Our Approach

Our approach to supporting the education of care-experienced students is based on the following principles:

Children in care are referred to as 'looked after children'
A child is 'care-experienced' if they are in the care of the local authority for more than 24 hours
A child will stop being a 'looked after child' when they are either adopted, returned home or turn 18. The local authority will continue to support children leaving care at 18 until they reach 21
The term 'care-experienced' refers to a young person under the age of 25 who is, or has been, in public care for a minimum of three months, since the age of 14, and was in care on their 16th birthday
Care-experienced students will be supported by the designated college colleague/team.

Phone: 01228 822 700

Email: info@carlisle.ac.uk

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