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With the right staff training and good practice policies in place, early years settings can provide a lifeline for newly arrived refugee children and their families A key framework for working with refugee children is known as STOP. This is an easy-to-remember way to ensure that you have in place the principles of good early years practice to support children affected by conflict:

A key framework for working with refugee children is known as STOP. This is an easy-to-remember way to ensure that you have in place the principles of good early years practice to support children affected by conflict:

S space and structure

T trust, time and talking

O opportunities to play

P partnership with parents

Space and structure are vital to any early years programme. For a refugee child, getting to know the predictable routine of the setting will be an important antidote to the chaos they may have experienced. Conditions may be cramped for families living in temporary housing, so children need the physical space of the setting too.

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