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APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision Research The Glasgow Experience

APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision Research The Glasgow Experience. Anne Murray, Oakgrove IPNS. APTIS CONFERENCE – Anne Murray, OIPNS Glasgow Visit. 5 members of NINGN, 4 school Principals & a SENCO(Special Educationals Needs co-ordinator)

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APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision Research The Glasgow Experience

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  1. APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision ResearchThe Glasgow Experience Anne Murray, Oakgrove IPNS

  2. APTIS CONFERENCE – Anne Murray, OIPNSGlasgow Visit • 5 members of NINGN, 4 school Principals & a SENCO(Special Educationals Needs co-ordinator) • Went for a day in September to Anderston P.S. Glasgow and met with: • Mary Mc Kerrell Nurture Co-ordinator for Glasgow • Nurture Centre staff • Margaret Mc Kinlay Education Department, Glasgow City Council

  3. Glasgow Research Why? • Large number of vulnerable children entering school ie children who hadsignificant emotional and behavioural difficultiesand wereunable to meet the expectation and demands of ordinary nursery or infant class • View that problems faced in their development and behaviour arose from impoverished early nurturing, leading to difficulties in forming trusting relationships with adults and responding appropriately to their peers

  4. Conclusion of the Glasgow Research • This large-scale controlled study across 32 schools in the City of Glasgow has strengthened the evidence base for Nurture Groups as an intervention that has been shown on a range of standardised measures to have beneficial effects on children’s social, emotional and behavioural development • It was the first study to use quantitative assessment measures to demonstrate significant improved levels of academic attainment in children attending Nurture Groups

  5. Key Discoveries for NINGN How did Glasgow go from 3 to 58 Nurture Groups? • Educational Advocate • Political Advocate • Good Financial Climate • Research

  6. After Glasgow - where to now? • Confirmation of the importance of Nurture Groups • Commitment to the children in our care who need this facility • Continue to lobby for support for these children • Pose the question – “Can we afford not to have them?” • Assist Government with N I solutions

  7. Current Position – N Ireland16 April 2013 • 27/09/12 Launch of NINGN in Oakgrove IPS • 10/10/12 Ministerial Announcement – 20 new Nurture Units in addition to 7 already DSD funded • None of the DSD or DE Nurture units were from the Integrated Sector • NING still lobbying for funding for those schools which already had unfunded Nurture Units in place – the ‘Desperados’

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