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How are schools across England welcoming and supporting the needs of children who have fled catastrophe in their home countries? Charlotte Goddard reports

Some schools and nurseries have been accepting displaced children for many years

This month schools across the UK are celebrating community, looking after each other and the human ability to start again, as part of Refugee Week (20-26 June). This year’s theme of healing will be particularly relevant to the growing number of schools welcoming children forced to leave their country because of war or other disasters.

In the past few months, many schools have opened their doors to new pupils fleeing violence in Ukraine, including Reception- and nursery-aged children. Some will have been welcoming displaced children for many years, from countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, while others will have little or no experience of children from refugee and asylum-seeking families.

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