Nurturing care handbook

Overview

This handbook is to help to put the Nurturing care framework into practice. The Framework sets out what children need to reach their full potential, along with the policies, services, and public awareness necessary to support them. Like the Nurturing care framework itself, the handbook is organized around five strategic actions. There is a separate guide for each and ‘Start here’ is designed to work in combination with any – or all – of them.  For each strategic action, the guides include: overviews, suggested actions, common barriers, tools and checklists for common tasks, indicators for monitoring progress, links to helpful articles and websites, and case studies, showing how governments and other stakeholders around the world can put nurturing care into practice.

The handbook is composed of 6 guides. We recommend you read the Start here guide first as it provides a general orientation. The remaining five guides correspond to the five strategic actions of the Nurturing Care Framework and can be read in any order.