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Some food for thought in your professional career Nurture Groups in School: Principles and Practice. By Marjorie Boxall (Paul Chapman Publishing, 16.99, 020 7330 1234)

Nurture Groups in School: Principles and Practice. By Marjorie Boxall (Paul Chapman Publishing, 16.99, 020 7330 1234)

Reviewed by Jennie Lindon, early years consultant.

This powerful and immensely positive book describes the rationale and practice of nurture groups for children who cannot cope with the demands of mainstream primary school.

The author has a wealth of expertise dating from the 1970s in developing a supportive, carefully structured experience for children whose emotional and social age is seriously awry from their chronological age. Marjorie Boxall explains and shows clearly through examples how disruptive early experiences can mean that children have not acquired any understanding of a predictable social world. They need the rhythm of caring routines, physical contact and adults who show consistent affection for them as individuals.

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