Country Report French-Speaking Belgium

The country reports are meant to set out the situation of the primary and secondary schooling system
for NAMS of the different country and cities from a qualitative point of view. The reports will provide
precise information about the actual situation of the schooling systems in French-Speaking Belgium withregard to the schooling of NAMS.
This country report will be added to the three reports already available on the EDINA website,
for the Netherlands, Flanders and Finland.
The main objective of this report is to reach the political level providing facts and perspectives to
implement the programme at policy level. Political representatives will use the results to improve and
strengthen support of NAMS in their city and country.
The report will provide:
1. An overview of the actual situation of NAMS in the region, a description of the
population involved in these classrooms in the three past years;
2. A precise description on the mobility of the population involved in particular with regard to transfer
children;
3. General information about the special classrooms developed to support NAMS in their cognitive
and language development nowadays over the whole country and more specifically in the cities
involved;
4. Information about the availability of financial support for schools and municipalities;
5. A description of the schooling systems with regard to reception, observation, evaluation criteria,
and integration of NAMS;
6. A description of the practices to communicate and support parents and relatives;
7. An overview of the stakeholders involved in the different processes related to integration of NAMS
into the school system;
8. A description of the teachers' recruiting system, training and skills especially with regard to the
target population.