APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision Research The Glasgow Experience

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APTIS CONFERENCE Nurture Provision
ResearchThe Glasgow Experience

• Anne Murray, Oakgrove IPNS

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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

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Glasgow Research

• Why?
• Large number of vulnerable children entering
  school ie children who had significant emotional
  and behavioural difficulties and were unable 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

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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 childrens 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

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Key Discoveries for NINGN

• How did Glasgow go from 3 to 58 Nurture Groups?
• Educational Advocate
• Political Advocate
• Good Financial Climate
• Research

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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

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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