Making a difference

Making a difference Kathleen Wright had no idea she'd end up as a key worker to a special needs child when she started helping out as a dinner lady at her local school. 'I came up through the ranks at the same school,' she says. 'I had no previous career or qualifications, I just knew I wanted to work with children.' From volunteer dinner lady, she progressed to a staff job as a primary helper and worked in the school's nursery. Special learning assistants had worked with special needs children further up the school, but when an SEN child came into the...