This document summarizes a workshop on getting to know care-experienced learners. It provides instructions for participating in a poll using Poll Everywhere. It then introduces a care-experienced student who discusses her background and pathway to college. Statistics on care-experienced students at various institutions are presented. Small group activities have participants discuss how to gather more information from students and what barriers exist to asking more questions. The workshop aims to help educators understand care-experienced students and better support them.

1. We’ll beusing Poll Everywherein this presentation!
Wifiaccess – TradesHall Guest
Password- Letmein1234
Pleasedo one of thefollowing to set it up before we start:
1. Visit PollEv.com/shonamcintos765
OR
2. Text SHONAMCINTOS765 to 07480 781 235

2. Workshop Overview
• Hub intro
• Getting to know you
• How do we get to know our care experienced learners, why does it matter, and what could
we be doing differently?
• Group discussion: curiosity inan educational setting
• Overcoming barriers: guidelines from Hub learners
• Questions and evaluation

3. Curiouser and Curiouser: getting to
know our care experienced learners
Hub for Success
16th May 2019
Curiouser and Curiouser:
Getting to know our care-
experienced learners
16th May 2019

4. Who are we?
www.hubforsuccess.org

5. Leigh (Smith) Torrance
• Leigh is 23
• Leigh is studying at Newbattle Abbey College/Queen Margaret
University
• Leigh owns her own flat outright

6. How did I get here?
• 2019 – Full QM year 2 student
• SWAP Course
• Prep for Education at Newbattle Abbey College
• Council Flat on own aged 17
• Stop Over supported accommodation for care leavers
• Princess Street for 3 months
• Snowden Residential School
• Care Visions

7. • 2019 – Full QM year 2 student
• SWAP Course
• Prep for Education at Newbattle
Abbey College
• Council Flat on own aged 17
• Stop Over supported
accommodation for care leavers
• Princess Street for 3 months
• Snowden Residential School
• Care Visions
• Torcroft
• St Marys
• Stornoway
• Foster Mum
• Foster Family
• Back to Mum
• Home with Gran
• LAC at home with Mum

8. Care-Experienced Learners across the Partnership
Institution Total Number of Students
Edinburgh College 20000
Edinburgh Napier
University
12910
Heriot-Watt University 10500
Newbattle Abbey College 200
Queen Margaret
University
4035
Open University in
Scotland
15700
University of Edinburgh 31910

9. Care-Experienced Learners across the Partnership
Institution Total Number of
Students
Number of Care-
Experienced Students
Percentage of Care-
Experienced Students
Edinburgh College 20000 422 2.1
Edinburgh Napier
University
12910 68 0.52
Heriot-Watt University 10500 52 0.5
Newbattle Abbey
College
200 3 1.5
Queen Margaret
University
4035 23 0.57
Open University in
Scotland
15700 76 0.48
University of Edinburgh 31910 37 0.1
Total 95255 681 0.75

10. We’ll beusing Poll Everywherein this presentation!
Wifiaccess – TradesHall Guest
Password- Letmein1234
Pleasedo one of thefollowing to set it up before we start:
1. Visit PollEv.com/shonamcintos765
OR
2. Text SHONAMCINTOS765 to 07480 781 235

15. In small groups…
• Discuss howan employer could createa flexible working policy
using onlythis information about their workforce.
• What can they dowith this data?
• What are they missing outon?

16. What should we ask?
• Typeofcarethestudenthasexperienced
• Whethertheyhaveaccess toTCACservices/support
• Whattheythinktheymight need tosucceed onthe
course
Differentinstitutionscouldtakedifferentapproachesinhow
togatherthisdata–Hubexamples.

17. Edinburgh College
Application Form

18. Curiosity: Macro and Micro levels
• Universities and colleges should be working together to develop ways to capture more
information about who their care-experienced population is, where they are coming from.
Thiswould allow us to:
• Measure progress on student recruitment
• Target outreach and other support to reach those groups who are still under-represented.
• In individual conversations, askinga bit more about type of care experience might be one
way to open up more meaningful conversations – enable you to support students more
effectively.

20. Group Discussion
• In small groups, discuss curiosityin educational
settings. You might cover:
• How much do you ask students about
their personal lives or circumstances in
your currentpractice?
• Could you bemorecurious?
• What would feel like a barrierto this?
• How might you overcome these
barriers?

24. Learning Outcomes Revisited
• Understanding of the range and complexity of approaches to student support across
different institutions.
• Discussion of how to overcome institutionalbarriers that prevent staff askingquestions.
• Awareness of what care-experienced students consider best practice.
• Reflection on how to apply this to your own work.