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Positive Relationships: Nurture - A fresh start

Children struggling in Reception and Year 1 with behavioural and emotional problems are being helped to become more confident learners at a specialist centre in Everton. By Caroline Vollans

What can be done to help those children who leave their early years setting and then struggle in Reception and Year 1? In 2015, an innovative and alternative provision for such children was opened by Everton Nursery School and Children’s Centre.

It grew out of a prevailing need recognised by several local primary schools: many children in Reception and Year 1 were not having a good experience. Such children would be likely to face exclusion very early on in their school life. As a means of addressing this critical need and avoiding potential disaffection at such an early age, the Everton Centre for Nurture was established.

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