The soft-bodied Empathy Dolls have already proved so successful that the EYDCP in Leeds, West Yorkshire, has bought one doll for each of its 40 maintained nursery settings across the city.
Judie Dawes, a former nursery teacher at Parklands Children's Centre in East Leeds, who was seconded by the Department for Education and Skills to co-ordinate a project on promoting equality and acceptance for the under-fives, instigated a pilot project using the dolls in three integrated centres in East Leeds in 2003.
Working with senior practitioners from the centres, Ms Dawes has now developed an Empathy Doll training programme that is being rolled out across the city.
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