The war in Ukraine sparked the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two, with more than eight million people forced to flee their homes. This, alongside other global events, has seen a growing number of refugees welcomed across the UK, from locations including Afghanistan, Syria, Hong Kong, and Ukraine.
Schools are a fundamental part of the infrastructure that provides support and stability to refugee children and their families, but for many schools, welcoming refugees is new and unfamiliar territory.
In response, The Bell Foundation brought together leading refugee education experts and key stakeholders and developed guidance for schools on delivering a sustainable approach to welcoming refugee and asylum-seeking children.
To launch this guidance, the Foundation hosted a webinar to explore the recommendations and explain how the new guidance can support schools in putting these into practice. In this blog, we provide an overview of the webinar.
