Emergent neuro-scientific evidence shows that nurturing touch is an essential pre-requisite of the physical and emotional security that children need in order to grow and flourish. A lack of caring touch in early life has lifelong adverse consequences on mental health.
The report, Wellbeing and Nurture: Physical and Emotional Security in Childhood published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood, refers to the damage made by the ‘social starvation’ approach to child development made by the Ceausescu regime in Romanian orphanages in the 1980s.
Recommendations in the report, sponsored by Liverpool John Moore’s University, include:
APPG chair, Steve McCabe MP said that our future society depends on the physical and emotional wellbeing of children.
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