Asylum Seeker and Refugee Support
Section outline
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This area of our Moodle comprises a collection of links and resources that staff working with children and families who have come as asylum seekers or refugees might find useful, either to use in school or to signpost to parents/carers.
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EMTAS run phone lines in different languages each week during term time. These cover various languages. Details are on the EMTAS website https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/emtas/supportinglanguages/emtas-phone-lines
Schools should note the following:
- Urdu speakers should try the Nepali phone line
- People from Ukraine may speak other languages eg Polish or Russian; we have phone lines covering both those languages. Note that our Russian Bilingual Assistant runs the Russian phone line; she is very happy to support families from Russia and Ukraine.
If you need a language and it's not currently covered on our phone lines, let EMTAS know and we will do our best to help. -
Schools should note that these three languages are mutually intelligible so a book written in Farsi will be accessible to someone who speaks Dari or Persian. Further, there is a GCSE in Persian which students who are Farsi or Dari speakers may also be able to access. From summer 2023, EMTAS is able to offer support with GCSE Persian.
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Kurdish speakers may originate from various countries including Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. This factsheet, produced by 'Translators without borders', provides an useful-to-know overview of key features of the two main Kurdish dialects, Kurdish Kurmanji and Kurdish Sorani.
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practical activities to do with a child impacted by war and separation. Materials translated into Ukrainian, Russian, Pashto, Dari and Arabic.
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