While I share her experience that we were not invited either to staff meetings or to take part in teacher training days, in my case there was money available to pay for some of the training - usually half of the cost - if it was applied for. With this help I achieved my NVQ 3 that was jointly funded by a local partnership that paid the other half of my fees.
I always felt I was a valued member of the early years team and I worked with some excellent teachers, but there were times when the other early years classroom assistant and I both felt that we were being required to do more than our job should entail.
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