Asylum Seeker and Refugee Support
- 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.
- 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 and Pashto 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 hoping to offer support with Persian GCSE.