Name: Natalie Hares
Age: 25
Current Role: Children's services co-ordinator at a children's centre, which is part of a multi-agency resource centre.
Qualifications: HND in Early Childhood Studies, BA Honours in Early Childhood Studies with Education and EYP status
Experience:
I began as a student, carrying out some practice experience as part of my HND in a number of schools and nurseries. One of the schools I volunteered in approached me to start a breakfast club. I then moved back home and carried out a holiday play scheme, working with children aged eight to 13 with learning difficulties, for the summer, before completing my degree.
During this time, I worked in a few nurseries providing supply cover. On completing my degree, I began working at my current children's centre as a nursery nurse and after-school club supervisor. In 2007, I took up my current role.
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