'There are many benefits for these children to maintain their native language'
Belfast City Council is to look at a £2,000 scheme to provide child refugees with books in their own language.
Councillor Bower said at the meeting: “There are lots of refugee children living across Belfast, and they have limited or no access to literature or reading materials which are in their native language.“Having access and ownership to these materials can support these children to maintain a good level of literacy in their primary spoken language.
“These will be children that council officers currently work with - there is lots of scope there already. The officers calculate that such a scheme could incur costs of up to £2,000 and would enable Belfast City Council practitioners to work with five different community partners across the city.”
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