Elspeth Pitman, Head of Graduates: Placements, Employment and Alumni, discusses the best thing about being a nanny in a blog for Twinkl.

In this guidance blog, experts from across the sector of early childhood and nannying have been asked to contribute, answering questions around the role, expectations, and life of a nanny or childminder. 

Head of Graduates and Norland Nanny Elspeth Pitman gives her expert answers on what she has found the best thing about being a nanny is, as well as what she would have liked to have known before starting out as an early years practitioner.

Read the blog on the Twinkl website.

Elspeth Pitman, Head of Graduates: Placement, Employment and Alumni, and a Norland Nanny stood smiling

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