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Refugee children: don’t replace one form of severe adversity with another
  1. E Webb,
  2. M Davies
  1. Department of Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Webb; webbev{at}cf.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.4.365-a

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    We strongly agree with Fazel and Steinn’s view that refugee families require help that is culturally sensitive.1 Failure to provide appropriate interventions in a culturally sensitive way to these children and their families means we potentially replace one form of severe adversity with another. Contrary to Fazel and Stein’s positive view of school such adversity may include, for some children, integration into the UK educational system.2

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