The sound of rolling wheels and children’s gleeful screaming can be heard at an Ore Church Mice Pre-School session in Hastings, East Sussex. Inside, manager Glen Russell is spinning children around the room using an expandable hose attached to a trolly board. ‘It’s really good for the inner ear balance,’ says the practitioner.
In the summer, Mr Russell completed a free, online training course from the Open University to help counter cases of poor physical development. ‘We are in an area of deprivation and a lot of our children live in flats in very cramped conditions,’ he says. ‘It’s quite normal for children of two to come in who have only just started walking.’
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