The NNECL Moving On Up Report 2017 was one of the first studies to provide an overall picture of care leavers in higher education. The report found that care leavers were around 11% less likely to enter higher education than other young people.

Patricia Ambrose is the Director of NNECL, which works to transform the higher education opportunities available to care-experienced young people through collaborative efforts and the improvement of local practises.

In this video, Ambrose discusses the importance of proactive measures, resources, and outreach exercises to improve care-experienced young people’s educational outcomes. She outlines the NNECL Quality Mark as well as the role of Uni Connect in increasing the number of unrepresented groups going into higher education.

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Care-experienced young people face significant barriers to accessing higher education. In this video, Patricia Ambrose from the National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL) discusses the importance of pro-active measures, resources, and outreach exercises to improving the educational outcomes for care-experienced young people.

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