{"id":3793,"date":"2026-08-27T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:17:42","slug":"opening-doors-everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2026\/08\/27\/opening-doors-everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-go-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Doors: Everything you need to know before you go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Opening Doors Webinars for Foster Carers and Supporters is a programme of workshops that provides the tools needed to empower care-experienced young people to make the right choices for them on their educational journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 8<sup>th<\/sup> September, 10-11.30am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <strong>free <\/strong>session is designed for care-experienced young people who are planning to start university in autumn 2026, and their carers or supporters.<\/p>\n<p>We will cover the need to knows, including what to take, making the most of your first few weeks, jobs and where to find support at university.<\/p>\n<p>The aims of the session are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For students to feel more prepared to make the transition to university<\/li>\n<li>For carers to feel more prepared to support young people with their progression choices<\/li>\n<li>Understand opportunities and support networks available to care-experienced learners at University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will hear from care-experienced students about their experiences of preparing for and starting Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>The session will be led by Outreach staff from University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, and University for the Creative Arts, and supported by care experienced student ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>This session will be online on Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p>Please register for the event <a href=\"https:\/\/events.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/8f556729-5731-404b-8b74-be356c5edde4@51a9fa56-3f32-449a-a721-3e3f49aa5e9a?source=copyLinkLegacyShareEventDialog\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please email outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Doors Webinars for Foster Carers and Supporters is a programme of workshops that provides the tools needed to empower care-experienced young people to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2026\/08\/27\/opening-doors-everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-go-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211669,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}