Foster care leavers made priority group in access plan for third-level education

Rory Brown, who spent 11 years in the care system, attends the launch of the new National Access Plan to drive equality of access to higher education at TU Dublin, Grangegorman. (PA)

Activists have welcomed the inclusion of care leavers and the Roma community in the government’s fourth plan to improve and monitor people’s equity of access to third-level education.

The plan, launched at TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus on Wednesday, aims to help people of a greater variety of backgrounds access higher education courses, particularly people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from the Traveller community.