We recognise that students who have grown up in care are likely to have experienced many more challenges, and much more uncertainty, than students who have grown up in more stable family settings.  We provide a range of practical and emotional support services to try to ensure that your needs are met and that your experience at Kent is a positive one.

Kent offers a Care Leavers Pack which includes a laptop, £250 of Argos vouchers and £100 towards  the membership costs of the Sports Centre or of Societies.  Eligible students are those who are new undergraduate students who are home fee paying, are under 25, who have spent 13 weeks in care since the age of 14, including on or after their 16th birthday.  Further information and the application form can be found here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/finance-student/funding/IndexCareLeavers.html

In addition to this, we offer the Kent Financial Support Package. In 2015 this is £2,000 per academic year, paid in two instalments.

To check the full eligibility criteria, and conditions, please follow this link:  https://www.kent.ac.uk/finance-student/funding/kfsp.html

We are also committed to providing accommodation to care leaver students during the university holidays if this is required.  If students wish to remain living on campus after their first year, they will be able to request this.

The university has two designated members of staff to support care leavers.  For any enquiries pre-registration, please contact Ffion Capelin-Simms on dmstaff@kent.ac.uk or 01634 888455.

Once on your course, please contact Rachel Levy for any practical or emotional support needs, or just for a general chat about how things are going for you.  Rachel can be contacted on: r.levy@kent.ac.uk or on 01227 816164.  She is mainly based in Canterbury, but is at Medway every Wednesday and appointments can be booked by contacting: medwaywellbeing@kent.ac.uk or phoning 01634 202984.