Nursery World - Case study: Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project

The creche at Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project was featured on Babette Brown's 'Celebrating Diversity: Inclusion in Practice' video for its work on anti-discrimination. The centre offers a wide variety of services, including low-cost food, benefits advice, courses, computer access and housing support. The playroom, offering high-quality care for children up to eight years old, supports these services. Judy Simon, the playroom co-ordinator, and her colleagues have been using Persona Dolls in the creche for over a year.

Judy Simon, the playroom co-ordinator, and her colleagues have been using Persona Dolls in the creche for over a year.

'We attended Persona Dolls training at Brighton and Hove's Service for English as an Additional Language. Afterwards we raised money to buy a doll for the centre. The whole thing fitted so well with the way we work here, as we encourage children to acknowledge and respect difference, and the Persona Dolls are such a good way to introduce and discuss issues,' she says.

The centre's creche usually has 12 children in each session, and the Persona Doll 'visits'

the creche twice a week.

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