Every child able to learn

Supporting social and emotional development through a nurturing approach to education.

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Championing nurture in education

We help every child become able to learn. In the last year we’ve reached over:

359,000

children and young people

5,000

 education settings

Who we work with

We support the whole education system, to ensure that every child and young person gets the support they need to have the best possible chance in life.

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Local Education Authorities, Schools and Trusts
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Violence Reduction Units

Removing the barriers

to learning by

Training practitioners in nurture provision and providing tools and resources

Helping to foster a nurturing culture across the whole school

Influencing educational policy

Campaigning to raise awareness

Latest news and blog posts

Improving school attendance using nurture
Every school works hard to achieve full school attendance. When children and young people are present and attentive, they’re learning and growing. But for many, school can be a challenging…
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Start the year with insight: Why knowing your pupils matters
The start of the new school year brings both excitement and uncertainty for many pupils. As term begins, we may see a wide range of behaviour – withdrawal, clinginess, over-excitment,…
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Blackout poetry as creative expression for children
Blackout poetry can be an excellent classroom or nurture group activity. It is a thoughtful, calming task that encourages emotional expression and creativity. It’s low-pressure, simple to set up, and…
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Are you relationally literate?
I was reminded this week about the history of the written word and how it fundamentally reshaped how we think. This reflection drew an interesting parallel with nurtureuk’s work in…
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A child in a nurture group in school experiences "toast time" - a kind of nurture activity which involves the sharing of food. The child is holding a piece of toast to his mouth and looking at the camera.
Toast time as a nurture intervention
What is toast time? How to start your own toast time The positive outcomes of toast time ‘We get to talk about lots of things in toast time don’t we?…
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A secondary school classroom in a school with rows of desks and chairs facing a whiteboard.
Nurture in secondary schools from a pupil perspective
“Nurturing, personalised and engaging.” That’s how Year 11 pupil Phoebe would describe her primary school experience. Yet nurture in her secondary schools was notably absent. Up until then, Phoebe felt…
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