Learning and Refugee Families (LARF) project

LARF

Learning and Refugee Families (LARF) project: development project with refugee families and foster carers Working in partnership, Hertfordshire County Council, Refugee Women’s Association and NIACE are delivering an innovative ESOL development project to develop and deliver family learning programmes for refugee families. The project will engage with refugee women and children to support them in improving their English language skills and exploring opportunities for participation in other learning and employment. Chris Taylor Programme Director, NIACE said "We will produce materials that will support good practice in working with refugee families for local authorities where refugees are dispersed including learning resources for Family Learning and other practitioners to use with refugee women and children. As part of this project we will also work with settled refugee women to raise awareness about fostering and support them in exploring and accessing opportunities to become foster carers for unaccompanied refugee children. This work will be carried out in partnership with local authorities and other fostering and adoption specialist agencies. LARF is a 3 year project that will work mainly in Hertfordshire and London but resources developed by the project will be relevant for ESOL, family learning practitioners and local authorities across the country. There will be a dissemination event to launch the materials and resources. The project outputs will be sustainable as each local authority will be better equipped to support refugee families and refugee children coming into their care, and each will be able to incorporate elements of the pack into their foster parent training and induction programme. We will be hosting a workshop at this year’s NATECLA conference 8-10 July at the University of Warwick and tell you more about this exciting project. See you there". The work of the project is supported by an Advisory Group of experts in family learning, fostering, refugee integration and ESOL. The advisory group has representatives of BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering), the Fostering Network, Croydon Adult Learning and Training and NATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults) and research specialists from the University of York and University of London. Click 'more' for further information

External Link: http://www.niace.org.uk/current-work/learning-refugee-families-larf