Section 3: Improving support for student carers
Introduction
Welcome to Section 3. This section focuses on carers’ suggestions for how universities can improve support for student carers. Their experiences can help you in developing your own practice. As you work through this section, make notes of your ideas as they will be helpful in the next section when we look in more detail at the criteria for the Going Higher for Student Carers: Recognition Award [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .
Section learning outcomes
On completing this section, you will be able to:
Plan to provide practical support to enable student carers to learn successfully, participate in university life, maximise their income and keep healthy and well.
Identify the resources and organisations available to support you and your university to become more carer aware.
Develop your ideas around how to improve support for student carers.
Next move on to 3.1 Getting in and staying in – the choice to go to university.