Dorothy Lepkowska is an award-winning journalist, who has written about education for a number of national and specialist publications, as well as for leading educational organisations, for the past 27 years, and more recently about parenting. She is married and has a child in primary school.

Julie Nightingale is a freelance journalist and has written for the national and specialist media for more than 25 years. She also leads the MA Magazine Journalism course at Nottingham Trent University.