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A Level 5 diploma set up to bridge the gap between vocational and academic qualifications has helped assistant manager Kerry Webb go on to study for a degree.

‘I never got any GCSEs so I didn’t think it was possible to do a degree,’ says Kerry Webb, who had already progressed to a senior role during the eight years since she joined her nursery group at Level 2.

She felt her career could benefit from an academic dimension. The trouble was, she says, ‘I didn’t have the confidence.’

In 2014, just two years after becoming assistant manager of Toad Hall group’s Horley setting, she was able to enrol on the City and Guilds Level 5 Diploma In Leadership For The Children And Young People’s Workforce. It was set up following the 2012 Nutbrown review, which highlighted the lack of adequate progression opportunities in early years, by training provider PBD.

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