A healthy option

Our feature this month about working in the health service reflects the growing demand there for people with the kind of skills nannies can offer. Last month Nursery World carried an advertisement for a similar sort of position to Dupe's and Maureen's, seeking nursery nurses to support health visitors in a Sure Start programme run with Community Health South London NHS Trust. In September the King George Hospital in east London advertised for an NNEB or equivalent to work in the children's accident and emergency department - 'no previous experience necessary'. This assistant is now being trained in such basic...