GHWY Intro to Military Families - supporting service children in HE

Go Higher West Yorkshire (GHWY) is a partnership of 13 Higher Education providers across West Yorkshire. The central ethos of the partnership is that all who can benefit from Higher Education should have the opportunity to do so, and this work is facilitated by a dedicated central team of staff to enable collaboration in relation to widening participation outreach and business engagement.  The 13 partners are:Bradford CollegeUniversity of BradfordCalderdale CollegeUniversity of HuddersfieldKirklees CollegeUniversity of LeedsLeeds Arts UniversityLeeds Beckett UniversityLeeds College of BuildingLeeds City CollegeLeeds ConservatoireLeeds Trinity UniversityWakefield CollegeGo Higher West Yorkshire currently operates the Uni Connect Programme across West Yorkshire.

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Hear from Louisa Dobson from FutureHY (York and North Yorkshire) about how to support service children from military families in HE.

<p>Louisa will share her experiences of setting up a collaborative network in North Yorkshire to support service children. Her presentation will cover: who service children are and why they are a designated target group for OfS, setting up a collaborative network to support service children, and provide the opportunity to think about next steps in the region.  </p><ul><li>A service child is defined as a person whose parent, or carer, serves in the regular armed forces, or as a reservist, or has done at any point during the first 25 years of that person’s life. 
</li></ul><ul><li>Service children are educated in over 10,000 schools and are likely to be educated in schools that are within reach of all higher education providers. 
</li></ul><ul><li>Students from military service families often display many positive qualities including open-mindedness, pride, determination, resilience and being self-possessed. Nevertheless, there are a range of particular challenges that may be associated with being a child of a current or former military service personnel and this may impact on the likelihood of accessing and succeeding in higher education. </li></ul><p>You can find out more about service children as a target group in this OfS briefing: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/promoting-equal-opportunities/effective-practice/children-from-military-families/ </p><ul></ul>

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