Many children and families have fled from the war-torn Ukraine and are currently residing in the UK under the Ukraine scheme. Accessing education is a vital element in enabling these children and young people to feel more established and settled in the UK and to regain some sort of normality in their lives. The Foundation has been approached by numerous families desperately seeking places over the last few months and a number of students have already been successfully placed across the schools.

At the Foundation, we recognise the part we can play in responding to humanitarian crises by offering school places to even a small number of young people in need of international protection, where we are satisfied that we can meet their needs, potentially transforming lives. As a Foundation, we recognise a moral imperative and desire to contribute to the national effort to provide education, stability and pastoral care at a time of such enormous challenge in the lives of so many young people.