Care Experienced Students

We're here to help you achieve your potential!

At City of Glasgow College, we're committed to supporting students who have been or are in care. We work closely with you and the people who support you to offer impartial advice and guidance to enable you to attend a college course and achieve your goals.

There are lots of things to think about when deciding to come to college. Our Student Advisors can help you to decide on your course, plan a visit, make an application and sort out your funding and accommodation. They'll also provide access to support services, including counselling, learning support and the STAY Mentoring Service, and help you get the best out of your time at City. We've outlined all the support available to you in our Guide for Care Experienced Students.

We also have named contacts so you know who to contact for help. Don't forget to tell us that you're care experienced on your application so we can make contact with you. 

Named Contacts

• Kirsty Millar, Student Advisor: 0141 375 5127.
• Aidan Hudner, Student Support and Guidance Manager: 0141 375 5118.
• Email us - careexperienced@cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk.

Corporate Parent Plan

In 2014 City of Glasgow College became a Corporate Parent. This means we have a legal responsibility to support our care experienced students. We have created a Corporate Parenting Plan to ensure that we continue to develop ourselves as a Corporate Parent and to ensure we uphold our legislative duties. Our action plan has been refreshed for 2025-2029 in partnership with our care experienced students and has a renewed commitment and actions to support you to succeed. 

Useful contacts

Who Cares? Scotland have a range support for care experienced people. They can provide advocacy, information about your rights and campaign at a national level to have the voices of care experienced people listened to by decision makers. You can contact their helpline for advice and guidance on 0330 107 7540.

Hub for Success works with care experienced people to get in, stay in and return to college and university. They have created a helpful toolkit for school leavers who are thinking of moving on to college or university. 

The Become Charity is a voice for young people in care and care leavers. They understand that deciding whether to go to college or university and choosing what and where to study, are huge decisions for everyone. If you’re in care or a care leaver, you’re probably also worried about the cost, what support you could get, and where you’d live out of term-time. To help you make that important decision they've created Propel, giving you information about what colleges and universities across the UK offer to students leaving care. The site also has loads of other useful info, like an overview of student funding, specific advice for care leavers and inspirational stories from care-experienced students about how it was for them. To start your journey into higher education today, visit the Become website and get inspired.

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