Corrections and clarifications

Corrections and clarifications column editor

2 July 2024 at 4:00 pm

• An article about how an Essex school welcomed refugees said that the International Rescue Committee’s healing classrooms programme had trained more than 1,300 teachers in trauma-informed teaching and cultural awareness; the correct figure is more than 2,080. Also, Josh Corlett is the IRC’s UK education manager, rather than education coordinator (‘It was unknown territory to us’, 24 June, p17).

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