As a geography student from a family of doctors, Marsh did not have a clue what she wanted to do. But she did want to do something that helped others. Forty years later, she is to be made a Dame in recognition of her services to children and families, an accolade she receives at Buckingham Palace today (Wednesday).
Marsh's services to children and young people started in 1968, more by chance than design, when she became a teacher. It was her second teaching post in 1969 at the progressive St Christopher School in Hertfordshire that showed her schools are more than just places for academic learning.
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