Starting in the early years
I didn’t consider working in the early years sector initially. I left school with very few qualifications and went to work for an insurance broker on a youth training scheme. When I got married and started a family, I realised that working full-time with a young family wasn’t for me, so I became a childminder and started volunteering at the local pre-school. This is where I caught the bug.
I did an early years care and education NVQ3 at night and worked part-time at the pre-school during the week. I found it very motivating but also humbling. I went on to do a foundation degree, a BA (hons) and master’s degree in early childhood and now, 25 years later, I am doing a self-funded, part-time PhD with the University of Worcester looking at the influence of military deployment on parenting young children from naval families.
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