Ms Flynn has been running a daycare setting in Surbiton, Surrey, for the past 22 years. Already holding an NNEB in nursery nursing and a Diploma in Post Qualifying Studies, she was spurred on by the Ten-Year Childcare Strategy to study for a foundation degree at Kingston University (2006). Last year she went on to achieve a first-class Honours degree in Education and Childcare and was nominated for Cosmopolitan magazine's Woman of the Year Award by the parents at her nursery.
Ms Flynn says, 'Initially I signed up for the Validation Pathway, but with the newly extended maternity leave I found it difficult to locate placements where I could gain experience with babies. I decided to defer to the Short Pathway, giving me the time to develop skills in working with babies and to develop and support my colleagues in their roles.
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