"Migrant children need proper language lessons"

Migrant children need more classes in their new language and more staff who understand their mother tongue, say Euro MPs.
The European Parliament's Culture Committee is calling for extra funding for language courses for the growing number of migrant children across Europe, and their parents.
They say that children arriving in Europe are often poorly equipped to succeed because of poverty and disadvantage.
"If more efforts are not made to help migrant children do well in school, the EU will be wasting a formidable reserve of talent for the future," said a report endorsed by the committee.
Read the press statement.