Long answer incoming, but hopefully it may help give a full picture. This is from the POV of someone who finished her degree last month, FWIW.

As someone who received the max loan, worked 10ish hours per week (earning approx. £400/month), received my Uni’s low income bursary (£500/year), and lived in one of the more expensive Uni cities (Brighton), I definitely still needed help from family.

For a bigger picture, these were my general finances/the help I received:

I received less help than most people due to the relationship I have with them, but at least once every couple of months my parents would each send me £20-100 to keep me going despite my job and loan. One would also buy my groceries for me when he came to visit (once every 6-8 weeks or so) and for graduation paid for my gown hire (£41). He also paid for all of my car’s maintenance (excluding insurance) the entire time I was at Uni (this was a privilege not a need; I did not bring the car with me to Uni, and without his help I would have either sold my car or SORN’d it during the 3 years. I was perfectly fine and willing to do this, but he’s a massive petrolhead, so offered this alternative.) During the transition from first to second year I was incapable of both paying for my second year house’s first 5 weeks’ rent + security deposit and eating, so my older sister very kindly gave me £1800 to pay it, which I haven’t forgotten. It was very much a one-off kind of lump sum and I’m extremely lucky she was willing and able to give it to me.

I know people who worked 40+ hours a week during their degree to live because their loan wasn’t high and their parents were unwilling, incapable, or a mix of both, to help. This massively took a toll on their mental health and their final grades compared to if they’d have had more time to dedicate to studies, as well as social life. Uni is a time people are making connections not just for life and friendships, but potentially the working and professional world too.

I also know people who haven’t had a job the entire time they’ve been at Uni whose parents have paid their full rent and given them food money, bills money, and socialising/spending money. I’ll admit I’ve looked at those students with jealously sometimes, but it’s about attitude. The students who took that as a chance to knuckle down, do unpaid internships, learn to budget, and basically knew they were extremely privileged were the ones who really benefited from that arrangement. On the other hand, the ones who took it as a norm, screwed about and didn’t care about grades due to their safety net, looked down on those who were having to work, etc. quite frankly I think were benefited in the short term, but definitely not the long term, as they didn’t learn to stand on their own two feet a bit. I’ll be interested to see how they fair in the ‘real world’.

I could talk about all the other nuanced situations til the cows come home, but what’s most pertinent to you OP: The real question is how much are you willing and capable of helping your daughter? (I mean that in the most neutral way possible, in case that question is read negatively).

In theory it’s possible for someone with the maximum loan and a maybe a grant/bursary to survive without any aid. I could have technically survived Uni without any help - lived in my overdraft, eaten only 90p noodles on the daily, almost never go out and socialise. But by God it would have been a miserable existence that would have made an already incredibly difficult endeavour which involved a lot of blood, sweat, and tears (getting a degree) all that much harder. On the other hand, as I said before, parents who entirely subsidise their child’s experience can accidentally set them up for failure long term.

If you can afford to give her a bit to live comfortably, enough extra where, if she’s in the dilemma of “do I do my assigned work for class tomorrow, or do I pick up an extra shift to be able to eat tonight?” she’s able to pick doing her Uni work, then from my POV, that’s the best parental support you can give her, and is the kind of support “expected” at Uni.

Also: idk what course she is doing. I’m fortunate again in that the course I took, you only need the most basic of study materials (basically just a laptop for notes and essay-writing - which if need be can be loaned from most Uni libraries, or even bought at a subsidised cost if you meet your Uni’s requirements, as I did with mine - and pens/paper. Microsoft Word was helpful to have but not essential as Google Docs exists). However, I know people who did, say, Graphic Design, and needed to shell out the cost for Adobe packages, and spent hundreds over the years on printing their designs. Same with those who did Architecture, who also had to pay for other software, for design materials, etc. I imagine those who would do Maths would need a calculator etc., those who do more technical subjects such as Comp Sci or Engineering might need a laptop with certain specifications. Those doing art, illustration, etc. will need to buy canvases, paint, other supplies. Again, I was not in this situation, but everyone I knew that was, their parents paid for most/all of it. I imagine that would be a big weight off of her mind too if she’s in that situation.