Little training has been available so far for childcarers who work with asylum seekers. Judith Napier reports on a recent course.
Asylum seekers are scarcely a new phenomenon, but training for staff dealing with these vulnerable children is in short supply. Alice Sharp, who was funded by the Early Years National Training Organisation as part of a group of 18 delegates to study the way other countries had coped with integrating such children into the mainstream, devised and piloted a training programme called 'Celebrating Global Children' earlier this year.
Alice, early years executive of the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA), started by asking childcare staff in which areas they most wanted help. She recalls, 'The response was - everything! There were lots of nursery staff working with families, but no-one had a clue where to start.'
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