Award winner Lindsay Barrett, from Southwark, London, says, 'I try to provide an environment that is the next best thing to home. We get to know the families so well we can really support them.' Among the families she has supported is a young father who was widowed and left to bring up his young son.
Lindsay chairs the Southwark Childminding Association. She stepped in when the association was facing an uncertain future. 'Suddenly I found myself saying I would take it on,' she says.
A former commercial artist, she revived members' interests and gave the association a more professional image with a new logo and new newsletter.
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