By Degrees
‘By Degrees: From care to university’, by Sonia Jackson, Sarah Ajayi and Margaret Quigley was a five-year action research project commissioned by the Frank Buttle Trust. Its purpose was to explore, for the first time, the experiences of a small minority of care leavers who continue into higher education. The project aims to influence Government, local authorities, universities and schools to recognise the potential of children in care and provide the support they need to achieve it. The By Degrees research concludes that care leavers’ ‘ability and potential are being systematically under-estimated and that they are deprived of most educational opportunities open to children growing up in their own families.’