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'Making Choices' is designed to help people decide what childcare job is right for them. Linda Prudence went along and discovered playwork, says Anne Wiltsher Linda Prudence, now 36, who lives on the Isle of Grain in Kent, trained as an NNEB in her teens and worked as a nanny for four years. Later, she moved into banking, but over the years realised that she missed working with children. So, in February this year, when she saw an ad in her local paper for 'Making Choices', the short course which explains the different types of work in childcare for those wanting to enter - or re-enter - the profession, she jumped at it.

Linda Prudence, now 36, who lives on the Isle of Grain in Kent, trained as an NNEB in her teens and worked as a nanny for four years. Later, she moved into banking, but over the years realised that she missed working with children. So, in February this year, when she saw an ad in her local paper for 'Making Choices', the short course which explains the different types of work in childcare for those wanting to enter - or re-enter - the profession, she jumped at it.

'I'd been doing voluntary work at my children's school - Kieran has just turned five and Jessica is eight - working for the PTA and so on, and I thought I'd like a career in childcare again,' Linda says. 'A friend came along too. I work at a bank in Rochester in the middle of the week for three days, so I went on the Monday course ('Making Choices' runs one day a week for four weeks).'

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