Over the coming months, HEPI is partnering with the Unite Foundation to provide a platform for a series of blogs on supporting care leavers and estranged students in higher education. The Unite Foundation is a charity offering accommodation scholarships to care leavers and estranged students at universities.
This blog has been co-authored by Unite Foundation’s Ira Hakim and a group of students and recent graduates who are care experienced and/ or estranged from their families. The Unite Foundation and this group of young people – our Sounding Board – have come together to help develop a community for all care experienced and estranged students in the UK.
Dear Reader,
Did you know that many people are often told they’ll never reach higher education?
As care experienced and estranged students, we hear this message a lot and it often comes with a delightful side course of being told we don’t belong in higher education either.
