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Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development
Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the evidence base for the importance of early childhood development has grown, the research is distributed across sectors, populations, and settings, with diversity noted in both scope and focus. We provide a comprehensive updated analysis of early childhood development interventions across the five sectors of health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection. Our review concludes that to make interventions successful, smart, and sustainable, they need to be implemented as multi-sectoral intervention packages anchored in nurturing care. The recommendations emphasise that intervention packages should be applied at developmentally appropriate times during the life course, target multiple risks, and build on existing delivery platforms for feasibility of scale-up. While interventions will continue to improve with the growth of developmental science, the evidence now strongly suggests that parents, caregivers, and families need to be supported in providing nurturing care and protection in order for young children to achieve their developmental potential.
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Early Childhood Development Review Group
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Rebello Britto, P., Lye, S., Proulx, K., Yousafzai, A., Matthews, Stephen G., Vaivada, T., Perez -Escamilla, R., Rao, N., Ip, P., Fernald, L., MacMillan, H., Hanson, M., Wachs, Theodore D., Yao, Haogen, Yoshikawa, Hirokazu, Cerezo, Adrian, Leckman, James F and Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. , Early Childhood Development Review Group (2017) Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development. The Lancet, 389 (10064), 91-102. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31390-3).

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a historic opportunity to implement interventions, at scale, to promote early childhood development. Although the evidence base for the importance of early childhood development has grown, the research is distributed across sectors, populations, and settings, with diversity noted in both scope and focus. We provide a comprehensive updated analysis of early childhood development interventions across the five sectors of health, nutrition, education, child protection, and social protection. Our review concludes that to make interventions successful, smart, and sustainable, they need to be implemented as multi-sectoral intervention packages anchored in nurturing care. The recommendations emphasise that intervention packages should be applied at developmentally appropriate times during the life course, target multiple risks, and build on existing delivery platforms for feasibility of scale-up. While interventions will continue to improve with the growth of developmental science, the evidence now strongly suggests that parents, caregivers, and families need to be supported in providing nurturing care and protection in order for young children to achieve their developmental potential.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 August 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 October 2016
Published date: 7 January 2017
Additional Information: MH thanks the British Heart Foundation for support during the research.
Organisations: Human Development & Health

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Local EPrints ID: 404125
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/404125
ISSN: 0140-6736
PURE UUID: 1bcdb88b-02af-4752-b7f3-12de0e58d974
ORCID for M. Hanson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6907-613X

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Date deposited: 22 Dec 2016 16:11
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:17

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Author: P. Rebello Britto
Author: S. Lye
Author: K. Proulx
Author: A. Yousafzai
Author: Stephen G. Matthews
Author: T. Vaivada
Author: R. Perez -Escamilla
Author: N. Rao
Author: P. Ip
Author: L. Fernald
Author: H. MacMillan
Author: M. Hanson ORCID iD
Author: Theodore D. Wachs
Author: Haogen Yao
Author: Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Author: Adrian Cerezo
Author: James F Leckman
Author: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Corporate Author: Early Childhood Development Review Group

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