Challenges in Meeting the Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs of Refugee Children and Young People in England: Evaluation and Critique of Policy and Guidance

Cox, Patricia orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2565-4564 and March-Mcdonald, Jane (2019) Challenges in Meeting the Mental Health and Wellbeing Needs of Refugee Children and Young People in England: Evaluation and Critique of Policy and Guidance. In: Refugee Migration and Health. Migration, Minorities and Modernity . Springer, pp. 195-203. ISBN 978-3-030-03154-1

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Abstract

In this chapter the foci for examination and discussion are some of challenges in meeting the mental health and wellbeing needs of refugee children and young people in England. While much health policy applies across the UK, we address these issues within the English context. Our work and our writing is informed by a children and young peoples’ rights perspective - United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989, hereafter UNCRC); Ruck et al (2017), and by the understanding that refugee children and young people are children and young people first (Crawley, 2006).


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