Smoothing the Path

Smoothing the Path

Helping you better advise and support young people with care experience to access, and benefit from, higher education.

By Aimhigher London

Date and time

Thursday, May 16 · 10am - 3pm GMT+1

Location

Goldsmiths, University of London

8 Lewisham Way London SE14 6NW United Kingdom

Agenda

9:45 AM

Registration

Lucy Barnes, Keynote speaker

Barrister and care experienced student advocate, Lucy Barnes gives an insight into her personal experience and journey, and shares her thoughts on how you can make a difference.

Clare Cameron & Hanan Hauari, Keynote speaker

University College of London staff take to the stage to share their research into the care experienced student experience and their recommendations for how to improve it.

Matthew Raleigh, Keynote speaker

Programme Lead for The London Innovation and Improvement Alliance will provide an update to delegates on the London Care Leavers Compact and how this will impact access to FE and higher education.

11:45 AM

Panel discussion

Your opportunity to ask our panel of keynote speakers questions about how you can best support care experienced students to succeed.

1:00 PM

An insight from young people with care experience

Hear first-hand the personal journeys of current undergraduates with care experience, and find out what you can do as a practitioner to help the next generation of young people in care.

Lunch

1:45 PM

Breakout sessions

The chance to network with other practitioners, gain a deeper insight into the support available for care experienced young people, and find out how you can access this to help you in your work.

3:00 PM

Evaluation and close

As the event comes to a close we review the day and our key takeaways, and consider how we are going to make a difference to the young people we work with.

About this event

  • 5 hours

Join us for a one-day CPD event hosted at Goldsmiths, University of London taking place on Thursday 16th May 2024.

Together with you we want to enable young people with care experience to get access to higher education; and to be aware of the opportunities available.

During the day we will be able to work with you to create a better understanding of the specific and generic support available at different institutions and how this can best be communicated to young people.

Our CPD event will help you as practitioners when engaging with care experienced young people to understand their individual journeys and needs, and how best to respond to those.


By attending this conference, you will:

  • Have the opportunity to improve your understanding of university and what it can offer the young people in your school/college community.
  • Be able to highlight the support available at university to care experieced young people, with in-depth knowledge and accuracy.
  • Have an increased understanding of how you and others can support care experienced young people to access support before and during university.
  • Explore how practitioners collaborating together can improve the life chances of care experienced young people in general.


This conference is for:

  • School/college practitioners.
  • Governors.
  • Careers leads.
  • Personal advisors.
  • Foster carers.
  • Virtual Schools.
  • HEIs.
  • Charities and other organisations.

If you work directly with young people with care experience and you think they would benefit from this event, please invite them to register too!

Goldsmiths, University of London is less than five minutes’ walk from both New Cross and New Cross Gate railway stations and is also served by the following buses: 21, 36, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343, 436 and 453.

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Aimhigher London