FAQs   

What do they aim to achieve?

Nurture groups provide a powerful model of effective early intervention and this is increasingly demonstrated in evidence based research and evaluation studies. The experience of practitioners across the country is that nurture groups:    

• Improve attendance and attainments

• Support parents

• Empower staff 

• Promote inclusion

• Break the link between a poor start in life and later youth offending.

• Teach children how to make good relationships with adults and with each other and so contribute to good mental health in the future.

Nurture groups are relevant to all the current major government agendas to do with the welfare and health of children and young people. The five outcomes targeted for all children in Every Child Matters are all consistent with the aims of nurture group provision, whilst the groups positively promote good mental health for children and address many of the underlying problems associated with the early on-set of anti-social behaviours, which is known to be a key factor for later behaviour problems and delinquency.