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Nursery Chains: Kaleidoscope Day Nurseries - Taking the long view

How sticking to a goal of graduate leadership is helping one nursery group in Yorkshire to grow and prosper.

Prioritising on graduate leadership across all its sites is enabling Kaleidoscope Day Nurseries to pursue a steady course of growth, and to gain accolades along the way.

Founder Jane Middlebrook scooped the Trainer of the Year title at the Nursery World Awards 2012, while her colleague Alison Turner was named Operations/Regional Manager of the Year. Kaleidoscope reports that it has also just won the regional heat for the Yorkshire and Humberside Medium Employer of the Year at the National Training Awards and is now through to the national finals.

Mrs Middlebrook says, 'It's fantastic to get recognition and it highlights the extent to which our degree programme for staff has created a strong strategy for our business.'

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