Nursery World - All in the family

Nannying has been the mainstay for a family of professional childcarers well supplied with work by Helen Kewley When a really capable nanny comes to my agency and takes a job and employers think she is wonderful, it is great to find out that she has a sister who wants to work in childcare. But only once have I encountered a family of five such girls.

When a really capable nanny comes to my agency and takes a job and employers think she is wonderful, it is great to find out that she has a sister who wants to work in childcare. But only once have I encountered a family of five such girls.

Lynne Bagstaff, who is 25, came to the agency in 1997. She had just completed her BTec National Diploma in Nursery Nursing. Lynne says, 'When I went to college to do my BTec I fully intended to go straight on to university to do a teaching degree. I chose the BTec rather than A levels, since it offered practical placements in schools and the results depended on the two years' work, not simply the exams. I enjoyed the course, but by the end of it I felt I had had enough of studying. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do but I was ready to work with children.'

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