Nursery World - STOP - a framework for working with refugee children

S - space and structure T - trust, time and talking

T - trust, time and talking

O - opportunities to play

P - partnership with parents (and other carers)

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

From the perspective of the young child, trust is often the primary casualty of war. The primary carer, often the mother, may be so affected by the enormous changes in the family's life that she is unable to meet a child's basic needs.

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