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Leadership is the ultimate aim of an in-house training scheme offered to staff of a large nursery chain. Sue Learner hears all about it While the Government battles to raise standards among nursery workers, a private nursery chain is already doing so with its own in-house training programme.

While the Government battles to raise standards among nursery workers, a private nursery chain is already doing so with its own in-house training programme.

Teddies, which is made up of 36 nurseries in the south-east of England, delivers a training programme to enable heads of units to develop their role as childcare practitioners and become leaders and members of the management team.

'We were getting feedback from the heads of units that they needed some guidance on leadership skills and help with managing a team with whom they are also friends,' explains Tamsin Hodgkinson, learning and development manager at Teddies.

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