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Julie Wharton, Senior Lecturer and NASENCo Course Leader, Institute of Education, University of Winchester

How schools and teachers can make refugee children feel welcome

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Teachers in the UK are welcoming children seeking sanctuary into their classrooms. In 2022, 46,000 young people aged under 18 arrived in the UK from Ukraine. More than 5,000 asylum applications were made by unaccompanied children in 2022.

Studies have shown that teachers can feel ill-equipped or may not receive formal training to meet the needs of these new arrivals in their classrooms.

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