Breaking The Care Ceiling Report
Commissioned by First Star Scholars UK
Breaking the Care Ceiling is a landmark report commissioned by First Star Scholars UK, exploring the university journeys of care-experienced young people across the UK. It reveals how many care leavers access higher education, what their outcomes look like, and what happens to those who don’t make it to university.
The findings offer a powerful call to action for educators, policymakers, and support networks to raise aspirations and remove barriers.
Improving aspirations among care leavers
Changing lives is what the university sector does best, and we want to do everything we can to extend that opportunity to young people who have grown up in care. Care leavers aren’t less clever than other people, just less lucky – but young people from care backgrounds leaving education have some of the worst outcomes of any group.
