Therapy is child's play

Level 2 and 3 NVQ candidates in Children's Care Learning and Development met up with the full-time DDC Year 2 students at Uplands House for a special guest presenter.

Ros Kane is a child-centred play therapist. She is one of few British therapists who practises this type of therapy, and runs Carefree Kids. That's her own organisation in the Borough set-up to support children through child-centred therapy in schools. Carefree Kids has a converted playbus if the schools cannot provide a room for the children.

Ros has also written a book called To Have An Only Child. (ISBN 0-9548934-0-9). (The book will be available from the Library, 4th floor in the Main Building)

We had an introduction followed by a DVD presentation of a therapy session.

This included all the 8 steps and full guidelines.

After the presentation we had a question and answer session with volunteers from Carefree Kids. They were also on hand to support students and discuss things further.

The place with friendly staff!

Regular users of the Library (known as the "2Learn Centre"), Jamie and Isha want to share their thoughts on just how good the place is.

"The staff are really nice and there are such good resources here," Jamie said pointing around to the room which has over 50,000 books as well as thousands of DVDs and Videos, talking and interactive books.
"Yes, it's such a friendly environment," added Isha.

The two are studying for their Child Care diplomas and find the free use of the computers essential for writing up their coursework.

The Library not only provides coursework reference support but can loan items (including fiction and entertainment) for periods of up to 3 weeks.