Child Refugee Event: SYMAAG, Students, People and Planet, SSG

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Event details

Thursday 2 May 2024
6:00pm
Workroom 1, The University of Sheffield, 32 Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD
Just turn up!

Description

South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) and the University of Sheffield have organised a 'Child Refugee Event'. May 2nd, 6pm

The event will share experiences from different perspectives and aims to offer solutions to some of the challenges that child-refugees face:

  • Blerta Ilazi: Member of Medact specialist for 'child refugees'
  • Richard Lynch-Smith: Social worker with experience of working with 'child refugees'
  • A mum asylum-seeker with a 7 year old child suffering with autism
  • Dr Christina H Tatham lecturer from Sheffield university has done research on: young children experiences of, and access to, education in linguistically and culturally diverse settings

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