The report, Crossing Borders: Responding to the local challenges ofmigrant workers, said it is an issue in an increasing number of schools.More than one in 10 maintained school pupils have a first language otherthan English.
"Teachers may lack the necessary experience and expertise, schools maylack the capacity to manage the numbers effectively, and local educationauthorities can find that their central support for schools is too smalland inexperienced," the report said.
A NASUWT spokesman said it was important that teachers "receive thesupport they need as people who come to the UK have a right to beeducated".
- www.audit-commission.gov.uk.
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