New research has highlighted the need for more funding for targetededucation programmes aimed at asylum-seeking and refugee children.
More funding is essential if the needs of asylum-seeking and refugeechildren are to be adequately met by local education authorities andschools, according to new research commissioned by the ResearchConsortium.
The Education of Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Children: A Study of LEA andSchool Values Policies and Practices says that current fundingarrangements are not addressing the complexity of asylum-seeking andrefugee pupils' needs.
The research, sponsored by the faculty of education at CambridgeUniversity and the General Teaching Council for England, was based on asurvey of 58 LEAs and a case study investigation of three LEAs.
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