Case study: Stepping Stones The Background: Stepping Stones Preschool is a committee-led charity serving the families of the St Austell area of Cornwall with high quality care and education. It currently offers childcare in two different locations within St Austell and has strong links with local schools. The charity was founded in 1991 by Elisa Manuel who had the help of a few mums, a £50 grant from the Preschool Learning Alliance and the use of rented accommodation. The challenge: After previously using nursery management software from another provider, Stepping Stones had spent 12 months using Excel spreadsheets to manage their records after repeated problems with their software, but Excel couldn’t meet their needs either. “The methods we were using to record data and manage

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