Migrant Children with Special Educational Needs – emerging findings from a recent review and their implications for educational practice
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Chartered College of Teaching · Migrant children with special educational needs
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Migrant children, defined as children born in another country than the one they live in, currently constitute around four percent of the under-15 population in Europe (Janta and Harte, 2017). No statistical data are available to confirm the number of migrant children who also have a special educational need (SEN). But combining figures of migrant children with those of children identified as having SEN - 4.4 per cent average across Europe, 14.9 per cent in England (Department for Education, 2019; EASIE, 2018) - indicates that migrant children with SEN form a substantial group within many European schools. Nevertheless, the intersection between migration and SEN is significantly under-researched, and migrant children with SEN are an overlooked group in educational research, practice and policy (Oliver and Si
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