This move is a significant step for student carers, who have historically been left with no formal academic support at the University.

The bureaucratic processes that students with additional caretaking responsibilities are offered at the University are clunky at best, and traumatic at worst.

Carers have remained a historically underrepresented section of the university’s population, and this translates to a lack of adequate support for students who have caretaking responsibilities.

Theoretically, I ticked all the boxes of a carer, but a label will never do the experience justice.

The University doesn’t just have inadequate support for young carers — it’s not supporting them at all.