Refugees, war and conflict

Resources to help support refugees 

We have created this short video to help raise awareness of some of the key difficulties that our refugee children and young people face, and how staff can take some small but important steps to help.

Resources below are discussed within the video and we encourage you to download them and adapt them to your needs.

• Supporting refugees | Suffolk County Council
• Children and Young People's Wellbeing | Suffolk County Council
• Childhood Trauma, War, Migration and Asylum - UK Trauma Council- Free evidence-based resources to help children and young people affected by war, migration and asylum as well as the professionals supporting them in both educational and community settings. Includes new animation: Childhood Trauma, War and Conflict (with English subtitles) | UK Trauma Council - YouTube
• Supporting professionals to understand a young person's perspective- In conversation: Beck and Luwam - YouTube
• Whole School Approaches to support Mental Health consisting of useful audits, ways to obtain child voice, and information on relational approaches/staff training- Mental health lead resource hub : Mentally Healthy Schools