Care Experienced and Learner Success. Learner success for this group is considerably lower than the general population with only 44% of care experienced students achieving success in 2017/18. We are committed to finding an appropriate place at college for all those wishing to study, wherever this is possible, and accept a young person may have a number of failed attempts at college before finding the skills to persevere and make the most of their abilities and achieve success. In this way, we will work to contribute to the National Ambition for Care Experienced Students with these students achieving at the same rate as the College’s overall population. The College is making progress in working with the local authorities to create data sharing protocols so that it can more accurately identify and support care experienced students, while increasing these young peoples’ awareness of why it is important to agree to the sharing of relevant data. It will be one of the first colleges in Scotland to have such an agreement in place with a local authority. This is highly relevant in addressing the low learner success rate for care experienced students studying at college. The College has set stretching and ambitious targets to improve this success rate in the coming years. It believes these targets are possible to achieve, given the resource it is now applying to support this group of learners and the progress it has made in working with the Community Planning Partners on this issue. Improving outcomes for care experienced students is now a major theme for the CPP Reducing Inequality strand of the CPP’s work. Outputs for 2019/20
