Professional Nanny of the Year Award 2007: winner announced

1 August 2007

The Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) has announced that Heidi McFadyen is the Professional Nanny of the Year 2007. Heidi (27) from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, is an experienced nanny currently caring for four children aged eight, five, four and 21 months.

As winner, Heidi receives the first prize of a two night champagne UK hotel break for two, free membership of PANN for a year, a copy of Which? Essentials Guide: Baby & Toddler and one year’s free subscription of Which? magazine.

The award was presented by the 2006 Professional Nanny of the Year, Gillian Taft. Gillian was presented with a certificate by Debe Lawson , Immediate Past Chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT).

The finalists attended a ceremony at the close of the Annual Conference of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) in Harrogate on Wednesday 1 August, when the winner was announced, followed by a celebratory lunch to which they were invited to bring along a guest.

The other finalists were:

2nd: Lorna Powell, Putney, London (D.O.B 11.03.1980)

Lorna is an experienced nanny currently caring for two children aged four-and-a-half and six-and-a-half.

Third: Helen Bird, Chippenham, Wiltshire (Date of birth: 18.01.1984)

Helen is an experienced nanny currently caring for three children - twin girls of four-years-old and a boy of two-and-a-half.

The first prize was donated by REC (The Recruitment and Employment Confederation). The second prize of a West End theatre and London hotel break for two was donated by childcare insurance provider Morton Michel. The third prize of a relaxing time gift experience for two was donated by childcare and training college Chiltern College . Lunch was sponsored by NannyTax and Greycoat Placements.