This work shows how primary schools can cost-effectively enable children from damaging backgrounds to have real access to a full curriculum through nuture groups. It draws on experience of these groups, meeting the requirements of the Code of Practice.

Marion Bennathan, Marjorie Boxall

Chapter 1 Children at Risk of Failure in Primary Schools, Marion Bennathan; Chapter 2 The Nurture Group in the Primary School, Marjorie Boxall; Chapter 3 Nurture Groups in the 1990s, Marion Bennathan; Chapter 4 Responding to children's needs, Marion Bennathan; Chapter 5 Preventing Educational Failure, Marion Bennathan;