Annual Admissions Conference 2019

Arron is Student Inclusion & Diversity Manager at the University of Salford. He has been involved in supporting care experienced young people (as well as estranged students, carers, sanctuary seekers, under eighteen students, and trans and non-binary students) into and through higher education at the University of Salford for the last fifteen years, and has been involved in the National Network for the Education of Care Leavers (NNECL) since its inception in 2011. He co-chaired the National Strategic Group for a number of years, before resigning in 2017 to become a trustee in its move to being a charity. He is an active member of many regional and local groups that support care experienced young people, including the Greater Manchester LAC Forum, and NorthCLASS. He has close relationships with Greater Manchester local authorities, and provides foster care training and specialist training for people working around care experienced young people. He is a member of the Student Loans Company’s Vulnerable Students Stakeholder Group.