strengthening the management of diversity efforts need to be directed both at building shortterm teaching capacity across the country to accommodate new arrivals and at building medium and longterm capacity to ensure immigrants reach their full potential and become active participants in the economic and social life of their local community in the short term a key focus should be on training and retraining as many teachers as possible on how to support children with minimal language skills poorly educated parents and who arrive in sweden after the age of with little prior learning due to the poor quality of the education they received in their home country or the lack of opportunities over a long period experienced during the migration process a key challenge is to provide adequate language support to youth who arrive in sweden beyond the age of with little prior literacy skills