Goals: To give looked-after young people and care-leavers an opportunity to explore the option of university and increase their aspirations
Funding: Aimhigher provided 415 for staff training and transport costs
Many care-leavers and looked-after young people feel that going to university is out of their reach. However, a successful taster session at Huddersfield University has helped broaden the horizons of looked-after young people in Bury, Greater Manchester.
The taster session was organised by Bury Connexions working with the government-backed Aimhigher initiative, Bury Council's looked-after children team, and NCH's care-leavers' service.
Tracy Shaw, personal adviser at Bury Connexions, led the project. "The perception of university for these young people is that it is all about paperwork, and it is intimidating for them," she says. "This project showed them that they are entitled to go to university if they want to."
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