ProjectsWhat is Welcome To Your Library?
Welcome To Your Library is a national project to increase opportunities for active engagement and participation by refugees and asylum seekers in public library service planning and delivery. It aims to nurture learning, well-being and a sense of belonging for all through:
• Participation of refugee communities throughout the work
• Partnerships to raise awareness and increase library use
• Confident, trained library staff
• Sharing good practice based on evidence
• Advocacy for public library work with refugees and asylum seekers.
Part of Welcome To Your Library's mission is also to demonstrate how the work contributes to broader national and local government policy priorities in relation to learning and social inclusion, including the outcomes of Every Child Matters.
Futher Information and Project Contact Details
Inclusive Secondary Schools Project
The Refugee Council is undertaking a three-year project. Its aim is to research and pilot new ways of working that link schools and Local Authorities with refugee parents, carers and refugee community organisations. This work will increase inclusion and raise the achievement of pupils with a refugee experience.
This innovative project will bring together refugee communities, parents and carers, young people and education providers to explore issues, develop understanding and collaborative ways of working.
The project seeks to identify good practice and strategies for increasing the inclusion of asylum seeking and refugee children in secondary education and improving their educational achievement and attainment.
The project will build on the belief that school effectiveness, improvement and educational inclusion are linked, and will refer to DCSF policy, and local initiatives and strategies such as:
- Extended Schools
- Excellence in Cities Partnerships
- Home/School and Family Learning
- Community Cohesion Standards for Schools
- Aiming High - Raising the Achievement of Minority Ethnic Pupils
- Personalised learning
For more details read the documents below.
Inclusive Secondary Schools Project Summary (70.0KB)
Brochure Education Final (79.5KB)
Project Team
The research will be carried out by a dedicated team who will benefit from the guidance of an internal Project Board and an External Advisory Group. The team consists of:
Project Co-ordinator
Dr Lisa Doyle
020 7346 1028
lisa.doyle@refugeecouncil.org.uk
Education Policy Adviser
Nora McKenna
020 7346 1168
nora.mckenna@refugeecouncil.org.uk
Community Development Adviser
Calvin Armstrong
020 7346 1162
calvin.armstrong@refugeecouncil.org.uk
Student Action for Refugees (STAR) Chief Executive
Katherine Blaker
020 7840 4442
katherine@star-network.org.uk
Four refugee researchers will be commissioned to conduct some of the primary, qualitative research.
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