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Sarah Douglas, play and learning advisor for Sure Start and Rochdale's Early Years Curriculum and Support Team, attended a tailored course, Inclusion Matters, run by the National Children's Bureau for Rochdale Sure Start last October. Ms Douglas says, 'The course was an excellent mix of reaffirming lost beliefs, learning new ideas and sharing good practice. The four days gave us the time to discuss the thoughts and feelings stirred up by the subject discussions. Mary Dickins, the course facilitator, allowed us to do this while keeping us on target to fulfil the whole package.'

Ms Douglas says, 'The course was an excellent mix of reaffirming lost beliefs, learning new ideas and sharing good practice. The four days gave us the time to discuss the thoughts and feelings stirred up by the subject discussions. Mary Dickins, the course facilitator, allowed us to do this while keeping us on target to fulfil the whole package.'

Ms Douglas reports that a highlight of the course was meeting Mole Chapman, a disability equality trainer who uses her personal experience as a disabled woman very powerfully in her work. 'We discussed the problems she has encountered and how as practitioners we can avoid the same mistakes happening again.

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