Children in Care and Careleavers The residential, run in collaboration with
Hampshire County Council's Children's Services, aims to provide young people
from a care background an experience of university life and realise the HE
opportunities available to them. This year the residential included a CSI themed
day of activities looking at forensics, policing, criminology and psychology
with students and lecturers, a murder mystery evening where participants had to
put their investigative skills to the test. On day 2 participants took part in
career based taster sessions in the morning, whilst in the afternoon they
visited YMCA Fairthorne Manor Activity Centre. During the visit they found out
more about careers and apprenticeships in outdoor education whilst pushing their
team working, communication and leadership skills in a number of team
challenges, some even challenged their own fears of heights on tackling the
Jacobs Ladder or Crate Challenge
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pillow a giant sized multi colour trampoline like structure. The day which
included numerous arts and crafts, alongside circus skills workshops led by
Street Arts alumni 'Magic Dan', enabled foster children and their carers a
chance to interact and find out more about university. Foster carers also had a
forum about how to support looked after children in education, whilst the
children discussed ways foster carers and schools could help and support them to
achieve. The Agreement gives careleaver applicants additional credit for
achievement in areas of experience other than the ones measured through usual
examinations. This recognises the fact that many young people in the care system
experience disruption to their education through no fault of their own, and that
as a result their educational qualifications may not fully reflect their
potential to succeed at university
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The Agreement extends the close partnership which
has already been built between the University of Winchester and Hampshire
Children's Services. This has included training for staff at the University to
meet the needs of care leavers, as well as residential summer schools, taster
days and activities at the University specifically targeted at raising the
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earring yellow gold. "The University of Winchester has been very supportive.
If it wasn't for the staff at the University I would never have had the
confidence to apply.The level of support received is fantastic and it's given me
confidence to know that I have such an excellent support network behind me."
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