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Estranged Student Form 2025 Entry

Warwick offers a wide range of pastoral, academic and financial support for students who come to study here. We also have a named contact for students who are independent because they are estranged from their parentsLink opens in a new window so that you have a single point of contact both before you get here and during your studies.

Please complete the form below so that we can signpost you to the most appropriate support available.

Definition of 'Estranged Student' status

An 'estranged student' is a young person under the age of 25 who is studying without the support and approval of both of their parents due to a breakdown in their relationship – this might be their birth, step or adoptive parents, and sometimes their wider family members. Students in this situation are able to apply to Student Finance England (or equivalent student finance bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) as ‘Independent and Estranged’. You could apply for student finance as an estranged student if:

You haven’t had any contact with both of your parents for 12 months or more; or
Your relationship with both of your parents has broken down within the last 12 months and you don’t expect this to change in the near future.

If you are applying to Student Finance as an Independent student for another reason - if you are bereaved, for example - we would encourage you to contact the Lifecycle Team at lifecycleteam@warwick.ac.uk to discuss the support options available to you.

1. About you

Your UCAS ID:

Your Warwick Student ID number:

Your first name:

Your preferred name (if this is different to your first name):

Your last name:

She/her

He/him

They/them

Prefer not to say

Your email address:

Your date of birth:

2. About your course

Which Warwick course have you applied for?

2025

Other

3. Further details and evidence

An 'estranged student' is a young person under the age of 25 who is studying without the support and approval of both of their parents due to a breakdown in their relationship – this might be their birth, step or adoptive parents, and sometimes their wider family members.

Yes

I have been estranged for less than 12 months

I have been estranged for 12 months or more

As an Estranged Student, you will need to complete your Student Finance assessment confirming your estranged status. You can find out how to do this here: SFE Estranged Student factsheet. One way to confirm your estrangement is to complete Student Finance England's Confirmation of Estrangement form - 2025/26 (you will need to complete this and upload to your SFE portal).

Once complete, Student Finance should then provide you with a confirmation email confirming your independent status as an estranged student. Please upload this email confirmation from Student Finance England here. Your confirmation email from SFE should say something like "Your independent student status has been awarded because you’re irreconcilably estranged from your parents" (this may be granted for the duration of your studies, or for one academic year e.g. 2025/26).

We will need this to set up the relevant support for you.

If you have not applied to SFE as an Estranged Student yet, or are experiencing any issues with this process, please contact us at lifecycleteam@warwick.ac.uk.

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4. Support and privacy statement

In order to set up all of the support available to Estranged Students, we will need your consent for each of the points below. You can also find out more information about the support available online here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/study/outreach/disruptededucation/estranged-students/.

Please note that if you decide you would not like to give consent, we will be unable to set up the support for you.

In order to arrange all of the support on offer by the University we will be required to share your information (including your Warwick ID and confirmation that you are supported as an independent student who is a care leaver or an estranged student) with a range of University support teams. This includes academic department support teams. Please confirm that you are happy for your information to be shared with these teams:

We would like to share your information (including your Warwick ID and confirmation that you are supported as an independent student who is a care leaver or an estranged student) with your personal tutor and departmental senior tutor so that your department can offer additional support where required. Please confirm whether you are happy for your information to be shared with your personal tutor and department senior tutor:

We strongly encourage you to speak to your department and your Personal Tutor about your circumstances so that your academic studies can be supported over the rest of your course. It is also important to do this if you are required to provide evidence of your estrangement to Student Finance again in the future.

Privacy notice

Privacy Notice

The table below and attached explains the ways in which we intend to process your personal data. Please read through this carefully.

We have endeavoured to provide this information to you in concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form using clear and plain language. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you require this information in an alternative format.

For further information on how we process personal data, please visit our website: www.warwick.ac.uk/privacy.

The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of any information you have entered on this form and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. The University's Data Protection webpages provide further information on your rights and how the University processes personal data. If you wish to submit a data subjects rights request, make a complaint or report a suspected personal data breach, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.

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Privacy Notice

This table explains the ways in which we intend to process your personal data.

Who we are:

University of Warwick, a royal charter company with registered number RC000678, with offices at University House, Kirby Corner Road, Coventry CV4 8UW

Our Data Protection Officer:

Director of Legal and Compliance Services

DPO@warwick.ac.uk

Our contact for this work:

Emily Cannon, Widening Participation Lifecycle Officer (emily.cannon@warwick.ac.uk)

The source from which your personal data originates:

The personal data will be collected directly from you.

The categories of your personal data that we will process:

Personal data will include: name, UCAS application ID, email address, time spent estranged

The special categories of your personal data that we will process:

N/A

Our lawful basis for processing your personal data:

The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest

Our purposes for processing your personal data:

The University of Warwick will process your personal data for the purposes of assessing your care experienced status which will determine your eligibility for support from the University.

Who we will share your personal data with:

Your personal data will not be shared or disclosed to any third parties external to the University of Warwick. However, within the University, your personal information may be shared with relevant colleagues such as: Admissions, Welfare, Accommodation, Careers & Skills, Student Funding and Disability Services.

Will we transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom:

Your personal data will not be transferred outside of the United Kingdom

Will we use automated means (e.g. profiling) to make decisions about you:

Are you obliged to provide this personal data:

How long will we keep your personal data:

We keep all personal data in accordance with our Information and Records Management Policy and the University Records Retention Schedule.

Your personal data will be retained while your learner relationship with the University continues and up to 2 years after it ceases. Holding data for this duration will enable us to offer ongoing support, information, advice and guidance from the University.

Your rights:

You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing concerning you, or to object to processing, as well as the right to data portability. If our lawful basis for processing your personal data is your consent – you have the right to withdraw it at any time. To exercise these rights, please contact us by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which can be contacted at www.ico.org.uk. If we fail to comply with your rights, you have the right to seek a judicial remedy.

For further information on how we process personal data, please visit our website: www.warwick.ac.uk/privacy.

Contact us

Emily Watkins

Widening Participation Lifecycle Officer

Email: lifecycleteam@warwick.ac.uk