The Hopes and Dreams chain of nurseries has won a Manx Step into Quality Award for the second year running.

Each of its nurseries - The Buchan in Castletown, Hopes and Dreams in Douglas and Parklands Nursery in Ramsey - were judged by a panel of experts on best practice and advised how continually improve.

Tina Moore, coordinator of the award, said: ’The judging panel were delighted with the significant developments made over the year by all three settings. Maintaining the award is not an easy task and takes hard work and dedication to get to this point. It is exciting to see the quality that is continuing to be delivered across the Hopes and Dreams family.’

Gary Peirce, the owner of Hopes and Dreams, said: ’It’s great that the high quality of care that we strive to achieve has been recognised and celebrated.’