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Nanny training and experience fits in well with a combination of skilled childcare jobs, as Helen Kewley hears Childcare professionals today cannot rely on a qualification that may be several years old, but need to continue their professional development and take up-to-date short courses, as delegates to last October's Professional Nanny conference unanimously agreed. At the same time, many of the nanny jobs being offered are part-time and it can be difficult to find enough work to generate a full-time income. So when I talked to Kelly Petriello I realised that her career could provide a model for today's childcarer.

Childcare professionals today cannot rely on a qualification that may be several years old, but need to continue their professional development and take up-to-date short courses, as delegates to last October's Professional Nanny conference unanimously agreed. At the same time, many of the nanny jobs being offered are part-time and it can be difficult to find enough work to generate a full-time income. So when I talked to Kelly Petriello I realised that her career could provide a model for today's childcarer.

When Kelly was at school she was allocated a work experience placement in a day nursery and enjoyed it so much that she decided on childcare as a career choice. In 1995 she gained her NNEB from Peterborough Regional College.

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