Education, Children and Families and Community Life Long Learning are developing Midlothian’s Nurturing Authority Strategy.
This is focused on the development of whole school and service nurturing approaches to help support the wider needs of schools, families, communities and workplaces.
Our vision
Midlothian as a nurturing authority will support staff to become experts in creating a culture of warmth, kindness and quality relationships which will nurture the emotional health and well-being needs of every child, young person, and family and of each other in the workplace.
Our aims
- To establish a culture and mind set of nurture as a central approach across Midlothian
- To co-ordinate a cohesive, collaborative and responsive approach to support leadership, staff development and the implementation of nurture
- To share knowledge and understanding of nurture as an evidence based relational, attachment aware and trauma sensitive practice
- To build capacity in every staff member to feel confident in how they build strong connected relationships
- To identify nurture leads across schools and services and establish networks of communication and support
- To create learning spaces for organisations and individual staff to reflect and build on good practice
- To celebrate and share positive nurture practice across the authority that is making a difference
- To support schools and services to measure impact through self-evaluation
The following link outlines Midlothian’s three year plan for developing a Nurturing Authority
NA Vision Aims and 3 Year Plan
Midlothian’s Nurture Strategy Group members are:
Caroline Guiney , Children and Families
Rachel Mitchell, Children and Families
Heather Fleming, Community Life Long Learning Service
Sarah Fleming, Lasswade High School
Claire Bond, Cuiken Primary School
Rosie Campbell, Inclusion and Well-Being Service
Lauren McMahon, Inclusion and Well-Being Service
Barbara Gill, Educational Psychology Service
Claire Finlay, Educational Psychology Service