Media coverage
1Media coverage
Title Northern Ireland Department of Education hailed nurture groups as “highly successful” Degree of recognition National Media name/outlet Nurture UK Media type Web Country United Kingdom Date 26/09/2016 Description Nurture groups’ have been hailed as “highly successful” in improving outcomes for children in a new report launched by the Department of Education Northern Ireland.
An independent evaluation by Queen’s University Belfast into the Nurture Signature Project in which nurture groups were set up in twenty primary schools and a further ten existing nurture groups were supported, has found that the nurture group provision is “highly successful in its primary aim of achieving improvements in the social, emotional and behavioural skills of children from deprived areas exhibiting significant difficulties”.URL https://www.nurtureuk.org/policy/policy-news/northern-ireland-department-education-hailed-nurture-groups-“highly-successful” Persons Seaneen Sloan, Karen Winter, Fiona Lynn, Paul Connolly