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Teaching union calls for ‘urgent’ school support for refugees

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Extra funding and training for teachers to help support the needs of refugee and asylum seeking pupils is needed “urgently”, according to teaching union NASUWT.
Teachers have a vital role to play in ensuring that young refugees and asylum seekers are welcomed, NASUWT says. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock
Teachers have a vital role to play in ensuring that young refugees and asylum seekers are welcomed, NASUWT says. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

This includes improving access to children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) support due to the emotional wellbeing issues experienced by this group of children.

“These children and young people have already experienced great suffering and hardship and so it is vital that they and their families are supported properly and with decency when they arrive in the UK,” said NASUWT general secretary Patrick Roach.

“Changing the lives of refugee and asylum seeker children begins with education, and we want every school to be funded and supported to deliver the very best support that all children and young people need to realise their full potential.”

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