When nursery manager Suzanne Cartwright-Powton was approached by aquarter of her staff who wanted to enrol for NVQ level 3, she faced thedilemma of how to support them while maintaining staff ratios.
The problem was solved when she found a local training provider,Horizons Childcare Training, to come in and work with the team ratherthan having to choose who could take time out to attend college.
'Initially, we could not find anywhere for all of them to take theirqualifications without disrupting the working day,' says Suzanne,manager of Just Learning in Darlington, which opened in 1996 and was thefirst nursery built by the chain.
'I managed to sort out Transformation Fund funding through DarlingtonBorough Council, and six of our practitioners started just beforeChristmas.'
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