I got to know Sue Pearson in the late 1960s when she chaired what was then the Pre-School Playgroups Association, from which she went on to play a major part in early years education in Sheffield and beyond, through her Hallam University teaching role. I was inspired by her to make expanding nursery education a priority as a young Sheffield city councillor with two small children in the 70s.
More recently we usually met up at the Holocaust memorial day event every August in the city’s Winter Gardens, where she often spoke very movingly about her own experiences. Sue was an inspiration to many.
