Training: Tadpoles Training Nursery - Better beginnings

Nursery World, 12 September 2007

Creating a nursery that doubles as a training facility has given students from a rough estate a bright future. Their leader Hayley Marshall tells what it's all about.

Leon School and Sports College is set against a challenging backdrop. The Lakes Estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, has a long history of social problems, high unemployment, racial tensions and teenage pregnancies. A tabloid newspaper once dubbed it 'The Baby Factory', where girls were deemed to deliberately fall pregnant in order to be rewarded with council houses and state benefits. It is hardly surprising that many of the young people on the...

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