Creating Sustainable Opportunities for Care Leavers in Higher Education
Back in April, we discussed the growing number of local authorities and other institutions, both public and private, to treat time spent in the UK’s care system as a protected characteristic under law. But why is the visibility and recognition of this cohort so important, and what real measures are being introduced by these institutions to ensure care leavers are empowered to reach their full potential in education, the workforce, and wider society? In Care Agency Media’s August blog post, we dive deeper into the significant opportunity disparities experienced by care-experienced individuals from all walks of life and the organisations spurring both the adoption and expansion of measures designed to even the playing field and correct such long-standing inequalities. Though we touched briefly on the lack of educational support for young people in care in our earlier blog post, the magnitude of inequality in educational outcomes is truly disturbing. Less than one in five (14%) care-exper...