Many children do not have happy family lives and fail at school.
Family Links helps change this by training thousands of health, education and community professionals to use the Nurturing Programme so that:
• parents create a calm, kind, healthy, hopeful family life
• children succeed and nurture their own children
The Nurturing Programme is a springboard for robust emotional and mental wellbeing in all adults and children; the foundations for a positive life at home, in school and society.
The Nurturing Programme

The Nurturing Programme provides simple, effective tools to help adults and children understand and manage feelings and behaviour.
The Nurturing Programme is universal; it increases the well-being of all families. It is also an effective vehicle for change in vulnerable families.
Find out more about the Nurturing Programme
Research and Evaluation
Since being introduced to the United Kingdom in 1992, the Nurturing Programme has generated much research. A Randomised Control Trial completed last year in South Wales and is available on the Welsh Government's website. Meanwhile a report published in 2012 shows statistically significant improvements in child behaviour and parental wellbeing using validated questionnaires. Read the report.
Latest research
Parenting Programme Evaluation
Schools Programme Evaluation
Validating Research
Related Research
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Family Links is proud that it generates two thirds of its income from training and selling course materials, but we need your help to meet the other third to ensure that many more families benefit from the Nurturing Programme.

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Latest News

Nick Haisman presented at the Canterbury Christ Church University Primary Mentors’ Conference on 4th June 2013. The presentation can be downloaded here.
Islamic values Parent Group Leader Training will take place in the Autumn.
The Sorting out separation web app is part of the Government's Help and support for separated families initiative, designed to coordinate expert support services to help parents work together to achieve what's best for their children.
Annette Mountford presented a lecture at Oxford Brookes University, Student Midwives Training Session. Download Annette's presentation ‘Getting It Right For Parents’ (PDF).
Shirley Stephenson and Sean Grant were delighted to participate in the CPHVA conference that took place in Brighton recently. Their presentation was extremely well received.
Family Links gave workshop at 2012 UCET conference exploring how the Nurturing Programme in PGCE BA and Teach First programmes helps create a calm effective learning environment. Download the presentation (PDF).
20 volunteers from the UK Islamic Mission recently completed training to become Parent Group Leaders. They will start running groups in mosques around the UK shortly. More information.
Family Links is part of CANparent Network delivering parent classes in Camden, Middlesbrough and High Peak, Derbyshire. Visit CANparent website for more details

Family Links is partly funded through The Big Lottery Fund.

The Nurturing Programme

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