Battersea Scholarship 2025 entry

To be eligible to apply, the applicant must be a first year undergraduate Home/UK student who is from a care-experienced background.

Care experienced is defined as students who “have spent time in local authority care, in a residential children’s home, have been looked after at home by a supervision order or have lived with relatives under kinship care.”

Criteria for care experienced is as follows:

• Living with foster carers under local authority care
• In residential care (for example, a children’s home)
• Looked after at home under a supervision order
• Or in kinship care with relatives or friends, either officially (for example, a special guardianship order) or informally without local authority support.