HE Professionals

Connect with your HE colleagues across the UK

This peer network exists to support HE professionals who work with care experienced and estranged students at their own institutions, in any role.  We gather once a term.

The next meeting is: Tuesday 19th January 2027, 3-4pm

How to use these meetings: This is your space to ask for advice, share good practice or learning, and spread helpful resources with each other. Please come with topics and ideas you want to discuss, speak up in meetings to get what you need from the group.

At almost 200 members, we have a wider range of roles represented in our membership: ranging from from Named Contacts and wider access roles: to Residential Life, Student Advice, Library Services, Student Union/Association/Guild Staff and Finance colleagues.

To get on the list for the next meeting and be welcomed into the group, get in touch with our network chair, Ira, at Ira.Hakim@unitefoundation.org.uk.

The network was created in a response to popular demand from a Unite Foundation seminar at a National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL) in 2024. You can download the outputs from that first seminar below. We’re committed to continually sharing resources created for HE professionals and be assured that its a safe space to meet and share the tribulations as well as the triumphs.

A Winter Guide for HE Professionals

Check out this simple guide to making your university inclusive through the winter break when many care experienced and estranged students still rely on services.

Helpful Free Resources in the Post?

Our complimentary All of Us Community resources can be ordered here: https://www.tfaforms.com/5000481. We have student-designed affirmation stickers, postcards and posters. If you want to order larger quantities, please get in touch with us at Info@UniteFoundation.org.uk

Want to go digital? You can download and e-version of the All of Us Poster here: which can be be printed out or used on websites, displayed on digital screens, attached to email, and sent anywhere else that’s useful.