Nursery World - Spotlight on…Lucy Potter

Position: Family Outreach Worker at St Luke's Cares community charity

What is it like to be a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow?

I applied for a Winston Churchill Fellowship in Early Years Prevention and Intervention in 2011. It is a funded travelling sabbatical that allows you to visit other countries to learn from their initiatives. I wanted to go to the Bronx in New York and look at HeadStart, an early intervention project, to see how they engage. I also attended ‘Semana do Bebe’ (Baby Week), a grassroots event in Brazil. My research project was ‘Enabling Parental Engagement in Urban Areas of Social Deprivation’.

What was the most important thing you learnt from the sabbatical?

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