The Local Authority supported schools' use of the approach and grants were made available to help cover the setting up costs. By April 2008, when Excellence in Cities funding ceased, there were 45 functioning Th.Inc.Rooms across the city. Secondary and Special Educational Provision had also begun to use the approaches. Rochdale LEA had also taken the approach on board and Bridget Sheehan had trained some of their own staff to deliver the five day training programme.


Staff at the Alf Morris Centre had continued to develop new interventions to increase the range of approaches available to Th.Inc.Room schools. A range of additional training opportunities had also been set up by Bridget Sheehan enabling school staff to further develop their skills. In 2006 Bridget Sheehan received the Play Therapy International Award for her work.


The Alf Morris Centre closed in July 2008 when the funding ceased and eQe was set up by Bridget Sheehan to further support and develop the use of these approaches within educational settings.


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Equilibrium and Enablement Ltd was established in July 2008 as a further development of the work begun at the Alf Morris Centre, Wythenshawe, and Manchester. The Alf Morris Centre was a Primary Learning Support Unit funded by Excellence in Cities. In 2002 Bridget Sheehan was appointed to set the Centre up. She was supported by Joanne Selby, a Learning Mentor and trainee counsellor. The brief was to provide a 'therapeutic' provision for pupils in the surrounding Primary schools who were failing to access school fully for emotional reasons. As a qualified teacher and therapist Bridget Sheehan was able to combine educational and therapeutic approaches to produce a unique intervention. Data was collected from the schools, the pupils and their parents to evaluate the approach. The data showed that 75% of children showed progress in emotional behaviour, 67% in learning behaviour and 58% in conduct behaviour.


The work then progressed to enabling schools to use the same combination of interventions themselves. A five day training programme was developed by Bridget Sheehan and the first Th.Inc.Rooms (Therapeutic Inclusion Rooms) were set up by the surrounding Primary Schools. This development emerged from the observation that not all progress was maintained after the children stopped attending the Centre itself, and it was apparent that the intervention would be even more effective and sustainable if delivered within the children's school setting.