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Nurturing Care Framework

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A global framework developed by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank that guides policies and services providing young children with health, nutrition, safety, responsive caregiving, and early learning opportunities.

Components

  • Nurturing Care Framework for early childhood environments: The Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), developed following the 2017 Lancet series on early childhood development, is a framework describing the qualities of environments that support young children's early learning and development. The article states it "describes the qualities of holistic environments that promote, support and protect young children 's health, nutrition, safety, and early learning, and satisfy the need for warm and affectionate responsiveness from others." It is used in the article to articulate why child-directed speech, emotional attunement and predictable adult responsiveness are foundations of children's learning from birth. (L.M. Richter et al (2021))

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  • L.M. Richter et al. (2021). Measuring and forecasting progress in education: what about early childhood? npj Science of Learning 6:27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00106-7
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description A global framework developed by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Bank that guides policies and services providing young children with health, nutrition, safety, responsive caregiving, and early learning opportunities.
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