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We need your support! Please use the ‘Service Children’ field in the Student record to help us track outreach engagement and outcomes, and strengthen our shared understanding of how to deliver meaningful change to these underrepresented learners
As part of HEAT’s partnership in Beyond the Barracks, the Office for Students Innovation Fund project, we are asking for your support in improving our understanding of the outreach engagement of Service Children by flagging these individuals on your organisation’s Student records when creating or updating your data.
Why does this matter?
The Office for Students (OfS) describe these individuals as ‘a person whose parent, or carer, serves in the regular Armed Forces, or as a reservist, or has done so at any point during the first 25 years of that person’s life’, and identifies these learners on the Equality of Opportunity Risk Register.
Service Children often face unique challenges in education due to mobility and family circumstances. Your data will be a valuable contribution to our understanding and coverage of engagement, which will enable HEAT to build a clearer picture and advocate for effective outreach strategies.
What to do:
We are asking that if you work with Service Children, when you create or update a Student record on the HEAT system for an individual you know to be a Service Child, you use the ‘Service Children’ field in the Personal tab (members only) to identify them as belonging to this group.
By using the ‘Service Children’ field whenever you have the relevant information, you will help us to:
- Identify participation trends among Service Children
- Understand barriers and opportunities for this group
- Inform future research and policy to better support these individuals
We would like to thank our members who have already helped to record this important information on the system. By working together, we can make a real difference to this underrepresented group.
Further Information:
You can find out more about York St John’s work on Beyond the Barracks on the OfS’s Equality in Higher Education Innovation Fund page, as well as a breakdown of HEAT’s particular role and the latest update on our upcoming developments is available in our post on the HEAT Research Blog.
If you have any questions this update, please contact us at HEAT Support.
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