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Nursery World Awards 2009: Individuals - Lifetime Achievement

This year, Nursery World is launching a lifetime achievement award. Independent early years adviser Julie Fisher summarises recipient Wendy Scott's vast contribution to the early years sector.

Wendy Scott is one of the best known and highly regarded figures inearly education within the UK, having had extensive experience in arange of influential positions within the field.

Wendy's remarkable contribution, both at a national and at a verypersonal level, is that she combines an enviable depth of knowledge witha rare gift for quiet, gentle advocacy. Those whom Wendy has influencedare not always aware of the remarkable skills she deploys to further thecause of early education and to meet the needs of young children.

In her career, Wendy has been a teacher in a variety of schools,including leading a demonstration nursery school, lectured in earlyyears education and taught the UK's first multi-professional advanceddiploma at the Roehampton Institute (see biography).

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