Our Student Support service aims to offer the very best advice and guidance for students with support needs who are making the move into further education.
Applications from Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) holders: We need to receive an official consultation from your local authority to process your application. Once we have this, we will review your EHCP alongside your application. If you are unsure of how to request a consultation, please check your local council website for their SEND department contact details.
Our Student Support service aims to offer the very best advice and guidance for students with support needs who are making the move into further education.
Applications from Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) holders: We need to receive an official consultation from your local authority to process your application. Once we have this, we will review your EHCP alongside your application. If you are unsure of how to request a consultation, please check your local council website for their SEND department contact details.
As part of our Student Support service, we support students with learning difficulties and differences, disabilities and medical conditions.
The college supports:
We also provide support relating to any issues that may be perceived as disadvantages or potential barriers to success.
The Learning Support Team will provide guidance before you start and during your induction in order to:
You can tell us about your support needs on your application form, when you talk to our Admissions Team to confirm your interview slot and at your interview. Please tell us as much as you can so that we can fully understand your needs.
If you can bring any supporting documents, such as an Educational Health Care Plan, Educational Psychologist reports, or medical diagnosis letters with you to your interview, that would be really helpful. We may arrange a support review as a follow up to your interview, talk to your school about support you have received to date, and to your local authority about funding arrangements. We may also talk to your Social Worker, Key Worker, any health professionals you regularly engage with and parents/carers.
We will endeavour to provide appropriate support for you, with needs assessed on an individual basis.
The type of support we can offer may include:
PLEASE NOTE: The support on offer can differ for each campus.
Once on the course, you will have a series of one-to-one tutorials which will support your progress, feeding into an Individual Learning Plan (ILP).
Midway through you will have a key Progress Tutorial and at the end you will attend a Next Steps Meeting to discuss your progression.
Please see the below Criteria to establish whether you may be eligible for Bursary Support, which may be able to assist you financially with travel, Free Meals, etc. Please also review the Evidence Guide and begin to collate what you will need to submit to ensure that we can review and where eligible approve you as quickly as possible.
Bursary Applications for 2024/25 are now open to all learners. Returning and New Learners must be enrolled prior to submitting an application and you will use your college email address to do this, which is a Google account.
New and returning learners MUST be able to fund travel and meals themselves until they are approved for Bursary Support. Where eligible learners will be reimbursed from receipt of their application. Please ensure that as our learner you also have your own bank account. Your application will not be considered until you submit it with your own details.
Please note that our Central Admissions Team are unable to advise on Bursaries. Please do not call them regarding any Bursary related query. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Bursary Support Team at bursary.support@accesscreative.ac.uk
