Dawn has been looking after our son for almost two years now, I have a disability and she has been flexible and understanding of our needs throughout our time with her. Thomas only goes to her one afternoon per week but he almost immediately bonded very well with her. We can see a major difference between how he feels being dropped off at nursery to being dropped off at Dawns, he has a massive smile on his face every time and he is in such a rush to get inside he hardly has time to say goodbye, nursery is quite the opposite!.

She has made him feel like one of her family and encourages a relationship between the children she cares for with her daughter who clearly loves young children as much as Dawn does. Dawn keeps a book with regular updates of what Thomas has done on each day which means a lot to us, she also administers medication in the form of an all over body cream for Thomas when his nappy is changed.

We are in Guildford and Dawn is in Chilworth which is down a rather hairy single track road from us, however it is worth us doing that journey (which can sometimes take half an hour there and back) because we know how much Thomas loves Dawn. We can’t recommend her highly enough.

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