Employer: North Tees Primary Care Trust
Age: 53
Time in job: Three months
Salary: £40,000
When a Sure Start centre opened in Stockton in 2001, Barbara Brookes immediately applied and got a job as the local programme manager. She stayed three and a half years before moving to develop the last of the area's Sure Start bases - now called a children's centre - in Billingham. And, in August this year, she moved to become an area children's centre manager. She is now responsible for supporting thousands of children and parents in Stockton, at five different buildings.
"I started out as a nurse before working for 20 years as a health visitor. I was passionate about community development and have always been interested in public health. So when Sure Start came along it was a dream come true. To have these resources and buildings in areas like this is amazing."
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