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Work Matters: Meet your mentor

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A programme to train mentors is to help raise standards and develop more reflective, confident practitioners, says Karen Faux.

Nursery manager Michelle Roads describes the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Learning Mentors programme as compelling. 'Everyone who participated in my group during the ten-week programme was enthusiastic about coming back each week,' she says. 'The beauty of it was that we were able to look at situations from different angles, with each individual bringing their experience to bear.'

The effectiveness of the programme was recently recognised when a 2007 National Training Award was given to the Yorkshire and Humber region. The judges felt it had exceeded its remit to create effective 'learning mentors', with the ability to identify and oversee training.

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