In 1892, educational pioneer Emily Ward founded the Norland Institute as the first educational establishment to offer any kind of home-based childcare training. In doing so, she created a brand-new profession – the trained nursery nurse – and the training model upon which all future nursery nurse training would be based.
At the crux of Emily Ward’s childcare philosophy were the pioneering principles of a well-trained, well-educated workforce with professional love for the child at its heart (epitomised in the founding motto of ‘Love Never Faileth’).
The notion of formal childcare education and training was revolutionary. Norland’s cutting-edge training, which combined theory with practice and hands-on experience, would go on to inspire the nursery college movement and lay the foundations for the Nursery Nurse qualification or NNEB, the precursor for the modern-day CACHE qualifications and many other early years qualifications since.
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