T&T: UN, partners working with government to integrate refugee children into state schools

The United Nations says it hopes that many Venezuelan children will be able to walk into classrooms in Trinidad & Tobago to start the 2025-2026 academic year.

A committee of UN agencies and partners, the Education Working Group, is working with the Trinidad & Tobago government to better understand the training and logistical support that would be required to accommodate larger numbers of refugee and migrant children into local schools.

It notes that over 2,000 refugee and migrant children remain excluded from the school system.

The UN said it has made efforts to provide them with alternative learning opportunities or to place them in private schools but has expressed a preference for wider admission to the state school system.