Nursery World - Head takes on parent role

Blackpool Council has appointed head teacher and Nursery World columnist Pat Wills as the town's first parenting co-ordinator. She takes up the post on 4 June after 36 years in teaching - the last ten as head of the Claremont Primary School, which has been at the forefront of integrating services for children and families.

She takes up the post on 4 June after 36 years in teaching - the last ten as head of the Claremont Primary School, which has been at the forefront of integrating services for children and families.

Ms Wills, a former chair of Early Education, said one of her tasks would be to write a parenting strategy and to 'bring together the work beginning to develop in children's centres'. She added, 'What we are hoping to do is involve all the agencies in this, including health, social services, education and the voluntary sector and do it in such a way that we draw everything together and get some kind of joined-up overview.'

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