Salford Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS)
Seedley County Primary School
Liverpool Street
Salford
M6 5GY
Tel: 0161 921 2202
Fax: 0161 921 2211
Salford City Council provides a support service called Salford Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service (EMTAS), we work within Children’s Services in Schools and Learning Development.
There are a number of children in Salford from ethnic minority backgrounds. Some need support and specialist teaching to help them to reach the educational level which other pupils of similar age and ability would be expected to achieve.
The ethnic minority support team provides support for the children of these families to ensure equal opportunities and to enable them to access the available educational provision – early years, primary and secondary.
The ethnic minority support team employs a number of teachers and bilingual assistants who work with pupils in schools to meet their language needs. Some of the languages they speak include: Arabic, Bengali Cantonise, Urdu, Lingala from Africa, French, German, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
Some of these children will be learning English as an additional language (EAL) having started their education in another country and some children will be bilingual. Salford EMTAS also supports a number of refugees and children from families seeking asylum.