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Interview - Elsie Normington

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  • Friday, November 23, 2012
  • | Nursery World
Author of The Silent Doorbell, an account of raising a child with a learning disability. Ms Normington also founded SNAP, a play centre for disabled children.

Interview - Annamarie Hassall

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  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Annamarie Hassall will take up her new role in October after working as the National Children’s Bureau’s (NCB) strategic director. Nasen is a charity that supports and champions those working with, and for, children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and learning difference.

Interview - Brett Wigdortz, founder of Tiney

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  • Tuesday, June 2, 2020
  • | Nursery World
After 15 years of leading the education charity Teach First, Brett Wigdortz set up early years education company Tiney in 2019. Tiney’s mission is ‘to empower a generation of micro-entrepreneurs to deliver amazing care from their own homes’. Since the lockdown, Tiney has received a surge in applications, many from people reconsidering their careers.

Interview - Monika Jephcott and Sophia O'Neill of Play Therapy UK

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  • Tuesday, June 1, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Monika Jephcott (left), chief executive of Play Therapy UK (PTUK), has spent six years lobbying the Government to ensure children are at the forefront of the reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act, scheduled to become law during this Parliament. Sophia O'Neill, child and family therapist (right), who works as a lead play therapist at Treetops Therapy and teaches a postgraduate Master's course on Practice Based Play Therapy, is PTUK's spokesperson.

The Big Picture - Narnia on Stage

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  • Monday, December 9, 2019
  • | Nursery World
Children and families can step into the magical kingdom of Narnia this Christmas for a bewitching production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Interview - Claire Cobain

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  • Tuesday, June 29, 2021
  • | Nursery World
Claire Cobain is headteacher of Arlesdene Nursery School and Pre-school in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. Around a third of the children attending the setting are diagnosed with SEND. It is the first early years setting in the UK to gain the National Autistic Society’s Inclusion Award.

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