Barry McGuigan Boxing Academy at The Edge: non-contact boxing and health and fitness workshops. Click here for more
Music workshops for 16 - 24 year olds with Foreign Beggars at Bootstrap campus Find out more
your rights as a looked-after young person
* Education
What advice and support can you get about your rights to education?
All looked-after children should receive support from the Virtual School through a personal adviser.
Is financial support available for Further or Higher Education?
All looked-after young people who attend further education receive:
- A grant to pay for travel fares
- Specialist equipment if necessary
- 16 - 19 bursary (provided by the college).
All looked-after young people who attend higher education can receive:
- Expenses for visits, open days and interviews
- A laptop
- A grant to pay for travel fares
- £2000 education bursary
- £7000 Accommodation and living expenses (spread over three years)
- Plus a statutory student loan and grant.
* Stop and Search
Watch a film made by young people in Hackney about Stop and Search.
