South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) and the University of Sheffield have organised a 'Child Refugee Event'. May 2nd, 6pm

The event will share experiences from different perspectives and aims to offer solutions to some of the challenges that child-refugees face:

• Blerta Ilazi: Member of Medact specialist for 'child refugees'
• Richard Lynch-Smith: Social worker with experience of working with 'child refugees'
• A mum asylum-seeker with a 7 year old child suffering with autism
• Dr Christina H Tatham lecturer from Sheffield university has done research on: young children experiences of, and access to, education in linguistically and culturally diverse settings