I’d like to finish this Sub-Chapter by stating that I am aware of many schools and other educational establishments who acknowledge the nurture need in children, where individual teachers, special needs assistants, and principals firstly go out of their way to bridge the nurture gap, and furthermore put great effort into getting other supports to address these challenges and indeed meet parents to try and assist them in their difficulties and struggles in respect of their children’s education.
Many of these supports are not state-funded, but are made possible by funds raised by concerned teachers and parents through voluntary fundraising initiatives.
From my experience, whether or not this happens in a real and genuine way depends more on principals’, teachers’ and special needs assistants’ willingness to do it than on State policy as such.
After all, because actions always speak a lot louder than words, it speaks volumes that (as I have mentioned previously) one of the first professions to fall under the axe in the recession of 2008-2010 was one that nurtured children who were struggling and needed support, the special needs assistant in Primary Schools.