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THE CHILD CARE ACTION TRUST
Registered
Charity No. 1076757
Step Together
Centres
providing CONDUCTIVE
EDUCATION to
with cerebral palsy and other 'motor' related disorders
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A brief HISTORY of STEP TOGETHER STEP TOGETHER first opened it's doors in June 2005 for just two days each week, employing part-time staff, to provide four "group sessions" of Conductive Education per week at a 'Day Centre' located in County Durham, enabling thirteen to receive Conductive Education at one of the four (weekly) sessions. In November 2005 STEP TOGETHER became a division of THE CHILD CARE ACTION TRUST. This "combining of forces" has enabled Step Together to expand rapidly, enabling The Child Care Action Trust to move from the original 'Day Centre' and to provide more sessions of Conductive Education per week for more children at Step Together Centres located in County Durham and Tyne & Wear. This expansion started with the full time appointment of Viktoria Kincses on 21st April 2006 as the Leading Conductor and Head of School at Step Together The second stage of this expansion, on 21st August 2006, was the appointment of Kata Molnar as the second Conductor with Nicola Beresford as a Classroom Assistant. These welcome new appointments coincided with the start of a two week Summer School and Step Together's move to larger premises, providing two much larger classrooms well in time for the start of the Autumn term. In April 2008, The Child Care Action Trust opened a second Centre, located at South Shields, to provide for children living in the Tyne & Wear district who were unable to attend classes at our County Durham Centre because of the travelling time and distance. In July 2008, The Child Care Action Trust Step Together Centre moved from the old wooden buildings at the rear of the Meadows School in Spennymoor to newly constructed office units at the Evans Business Centre in the Aycliffe Business Park, Newton Aycliffe. The new units were already well equipped with disabled toilets and kitchen facilities. The first Step Together classes at Newton Aycliffe being the 2008 Summer Schools weeks commencing Monday 21st & 28th July and weeks commencing Mondays 18th & 25th August. Autumn term commenced on Monday 1st September 2008 at the new Newton Aycliffe Step Together Head Office. The Charity also opened a second 'satellite' Centre, located close to the Middlesbrough/Cleveland border, in time for the start of the Autumn 2008 term. These new Centres now enable Conductive Education to be more readily available for children living in Teeside, Redcar/Cleveland and North Yorkshire. Szilvia Varga joined Viktoria's team at Step Together in October 2008, bringing the total number of fully qualified Hungarian Conductors employed at The Child Care Action Trust's Step Together Centres in the North East of England to three. The "five year plan" is to secure "purpose built" premises for our Centres with classrooms, hydro-therapy pool, staff rooms, library and offices as well as providing "Motel Style" accommodation for Hungarian Staff and for parents and children attend the Intensive Block Placements. With the help of Viktoria and her staff, The Child Care Action Trust intends to make it's Step Together Centres "Colleges of Excellence" to be envied in the world of Conductive Education.
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For more information please contact either:
Telephone 0845 230 5980 or THE CHILD CARE ACTION
TRUST Telephone 0845 2300 195
(+44 1424 201 555 from outside of the UK)
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