Karen James, Manager, Kiddlywinks
Children & Young People Now
17 September 2008
I started Kiddlywinks in November 2003 after helping set up the nursery at the University of Central Lancashire. Before that I was working in a secondary school, supporting children with special needs, but it had always been my goal to work with early years.
We take up to 40 children per session and there are about 130 families that use us each week. Because of my background with special needs, we get a lot of referrals for children that require extra help. I'm the manager, but I'm a practitioner too. There wasn't a children's centre here because it is not...