Kath Dickinson and her daughter Sarah are strong believers in giving children with additional needs the best possible start in life. Together they have more than 30 years’ experience working with children with special educational needs and disabilities – Kath as a teacher in a special school, and Sarah as a classroom assistant, among other roles. This background led them to open nursery SEND to Learn in the former mining village of Pegswood, Northumberland, at the beginning of 2017.
SEND to Learn is located in a purpose-built Sure Start children’s centre that was closed in 2016 due to lack of funding. ‘It was an ideal building standing empty, so we worked with the local authority early years team to set up SEND to Learn,’ says Ms Dickinson. ‘We have invested around £10,000.’
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