Care Day – Celebrating Across the Partnership
At the Hub for Success, we are proud to celebrate Care Day 2025, the global celebration of the rights and achievements of care-experienced people. This day is an important opportunity to recognise the resilience, talent, and contributions of students who have experienced care, and to amplify their voices within education and beyond.
We believe that every care-experienced student deserves the support and recognition needed to thrive. That’s why, over the past year, we have been working hard to roll out CPD training across our partnership— ensuring that educators and staff have the knowledge and tools to create truly inclusive and supportive environments. This training has been designed by our care experineced students and focusses on; understanding the journey of our students prior to college, the rights of our care experienced learners, utilising the NHS framework of trauma informed practices to ensure students are supported to recognise their potential, and empowering professionals to make meaningful changes to policy and practices that benefit care-experienced learners.
In this blog from Edinburgh College, we see how impactful this training has been.
“The HUB for Success training session was one of the best training sessions that I have attended. The practical workshop, which was designed so simply, demonstrated the complexities a child experiences when they are taken into care. It was harrowing to see the vast amount of people that they come into contact with, some so fleetingly that it seems like a blink of an eye, which leaves them confused, frightened and let down as they are passed from pillar to post. What made the training even more emotive was that we had the great honour of having the lovely two ladies who were Care Experienced and now work for HUB for Success sharing their experiences with us, their challenges, emotions, lack of trust, and behaviours that are triggered by the detrimental memories of those experiences that will never go away. The best way to understand an experience is to hear it from those who have gone through the experience, that is, if they are able to share their story, only then do you start to understand their journey and the ‘demons’ they face every day. As practitioners it is extremely important for us to have a better understanding of the challenges these students have experienced to allow some flexibility for that student to help support them to succeed.”
Frances Bain, Head of School, Hairdressing, Beauty and Complementary Therapies
