Early years practitioners from Glasgow said it was a 'real eye opener' when they came to visit us at the Westminster Children's Society (WCS) in London earlier this month.
Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA) early years executive Alice Sharp and I first discussed a reciprocal visit when we were representing the now-defunct Early Years National Training Organisation on a trip to Holland to see how they support children of asylum seekers and refugee families.
As like-minded practitioners we spent much of our time on trains having intense conversations about how we could work with refugee children and their families. Groups of refugee families have been re-housed in Glasgow, and in Westminster we have been working with established refugees for years and are now accustomed to the transitory movements of new refugees.
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