Clients often come to me asking for help to find out the answer to a question relating to the world of education, children or young people.

Being self-employed can be a strange existence. Team meetings are pretty non-existent, there’s no-one at the kettle to moan to about your workload, and the Christmas do can be a little quiet. But it can also provide you with a completely new lease of life, particularly if you are - like me - a fairly ambitious, determined and headstrong mother of two.