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Stafford students benefit from Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training

More and more people are undergoing Sainsbury’s Active Kids for All Inclusive Community Training, adding to the 1,500 who have already benefitted from the scheme.

Earlier this month, Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent enabled Stafford College’s students from the Early Years and Health and Social Care courses to access the three hours of training, plus additional online work.

Joe Whitelock, Faculty Manager at the college, told English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS):

“I arranged Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training so that my students could gain knowledge and understanding about the importance of physical activity for children. Many of the students wish to progress onto Teacher Training or within the healthcare profession and will benefit from learning about how they can encourage physical activity for children of all abilities and backgrounds through easy and innovative ideas.”

Based on the success of these workshops, Sport Across Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent have 11 more training sessions planned before the end of June.

Inclusive Community Training, part of Sainsbury’s Active Kids for All scheme, is a creative, informal and informative workshop. It is designed to improve the skills and confidence of those who support disabled people to be more active.

Described as “opening the eyes” of participants, Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training celebrated its 1,000th trainee in the New Year and has dozens of further sessions arranged for 2015.

Joe Whitelock of Stafford College continued:

“We know that research shows that getting active can improve health, confidence and quality of life. I would recommend any organisations who are responsible for training and educating young people to participate in these events so that they can educate and train the young people of the future to live healthier and active lives.”

Many of the students who attended the training on Friday 20 March told EFDS they had found it extremely informative:

“I have learnt about how to make activities inclusive. How to change activities to suit individual needs and to suit the age of the child. In the future we can put this into practice when working with children.”

“The course was fun, interactive and interesting. It is important for others to take part so they can understand how children participate with sport and what support they may need. When working with children it is important to know how to encourage children to be active and how to get them involved.”

You can view nationwide upcoming Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training events on the EFDS website, as well as finding out about Active Kids for All.

For further information, please contact EFDS, email AK4A@efds.co.ukor telephone 01509 227751. Find us on Twitter @Eng_Dis_Sport,Facebook and LinkedIn.