Blueprint for a #HomeAtUniversity
The Unite Foundation’s Blueprint for a #HomeAtUniversity is a framework to support universities in building a safe and stable home for care experienced and estranged students, improving retention and attainment outcomes.
Visit each ‘room’ in the home to see practice on that topic to help you think about how you could apply the idea in your institution, to fit your context.
Get in touch if you have a relevant approach in your institution that is inclusive of care experienced and estranged students and where you’re measuring the need and/or impact on students. When the Higher Education Evaluation Library (HEEL) comes into being we’ll be extracting accommodation examples and featuring them here too, so bookmark this page and come visit again soon!
Blueprint for a #HomeAtUniversity.
The Unite Foundation #HomeAtUniversity Blueprint can support your Care Leaver Covenant pledge and your holistic approach to supporting students through the NNECL Quality Mark.
The case for support
Making the case of a #HomeAtUniversity for care experienced and estranged students – whether internally for strategic backing or to an external donor for financial support – needs context, data and rationale. We’ve got you covered with material below that sets out why these students matter, the national picture of access participation and completion with current numbers and research reference points, plus who the Unite Foundation is and why our experience in this space is relevant.
Other resources
Practice webinars
We’ll be holding a series of free webinars across the year for stakeholders interested in Blueprint content. Check out and follow our Eventbrite for tickets to the next one – and to get notifications as new ones are added.
All of Us Student Community
Free access for all care experienced and estranged students to All of Us, the community for estranged and care experienced students across the UK, supported by the Unite Foundation. In addition to loads of materials for your students, you’ll also find here a group for a HE Professionals Peer Network too; the perfect space to share breakthroughs and questions with your colleagues in all things community and belonging for these students.
Do make use of our Blueprint building as a visual reference, or as a framework for applying accommodation as a widening participation tool; download a pdf summary and always feel free to get in touch to talk more at info@unitefoundation.org.uk