Bath - 28th January 2004

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Antoinette Lavelle	Writhlington School	Teacher	Emotionally draining! Felt fully engaged throughout. Emotional experience.
Christine Palacio	Young People's Support Service	Centre Manager	Experiential. Stirs the emotions not just the brain cells. Enables one to be empathic - in order to understand we need to step into other people's shoes - this experience helps one to do just that!
D.C. Kaye Cooke	C.I.D. Avon Police	Child Protection Training Co-ordinator	Challenging, thought provoking, an opportunity to try things out with the next best thing to a "client"!
Det Sergeant Simon Brewin	Child Protection Team	Child Protection Team	Much stronger message, it will stay with me longer. Training with longevity.
Elaine Paget	Youth Offending Team	Somerset Youth Offending Team	Dynamic interactive training of a high standard.
Joe Rooney	Bristol SSD	Social Worker	It kept my attention for the whole duration. Well done!!
Margaret Anne Zaccheo	Barnardo's	Senior Practitioner	It was a different type of learning experience and will not be forgotten in a hurry! Really felt the feelings and remained focussed all day! Experiential, intense, very realistic, well researched, encouraging, safe and exploratory.
Sarah Chitty	Barnardo's	Team Leader	Dynamic, powerful, safe, realistic, experiential, exploratory. Worth it!
Shelley Zagwojska	Social & Housing Services	Social Worker	More dynamic and powerful way to deal with difficult subject matter.

Bexley - 7th May 2004 (Course run by Bexley Area Child Protection Committee)

Name	Organisation	Comments
Ali Ward	Bexley Women's Aid	This intense, dynamic and thought provoking course is relevant to all professionals who work with families, children and young people.
Brenda Green	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	An excellent insight into the effects of domestic violence and sexual abuse on the child and how this manifests itself in adolescence from the perspective of the perpetrator as well as the victim.
Cheryl Metcalf	Children's Placement Service	I will have a greater understanding of children who are placed in foster care who may be the victim and perpetrator of abuse.
Clair Johnson	Bexley Women's Aid	This course was fantastic. Well written and researched. An insightful way to approach a sensitive subject
Ellen Ewen	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	Excellent!
Emma Walsham	West Childcare Unit	Hard hitting, powerful and useful. It will definitely help my practise especially when speaking to young people.
Francis Bloomfield	Bexley Centre For Unemployed	Very informative - thought provoking - excellent
Gwen Rumble	SOVA Mentor	Extremely thought provoking insight into the trauma of a young victim of abuse.
Janice Wilson	Leaving Care Team	Extremely powerful. Cannot help but learn from this course.
Jenny Griffiths	Queen Mary's Hospital	Excellent!
Kay Gardner	West Childcare Team	An excellent, well thought out and put together training course.
Lorraine Webster	YPSS Bexley	A moving experience, which challenged me and offered me much to consider.
Louise Friend	SOVA	Totally engrossing. Excellent way to learn and put difficult points across.
M. Ruckledge	West Childcare Team	Very informative and interesting
Nicola Parrick	YPSS	Emotive, very valuable training. Excellent, very real.
Pat Ball	Cruse Volunteer Counsellor	This was an excellent day in every way. Challenging, interesting, engaging and thought provoking. A wonderful and much needed antidote to tabloid hype and thoughtless hysteria.
Pat Marshall	YPSS Howbury	An excellent training day. Great to work with so many other agencies. Very gripping, very real issues for young people. Powerful performances.
Pauline MacDonald	SOVA Young People's Project	Absolutely essential for anyone working with young people. So true to life.Hard hitting, to the point and powerful.
Stuart Maddock	CPT - Metropolitan Police	A powerful experience.
Victor Zaal	West Childcare Unit	Innovative, interactive, challenging, excellent

Brighton - 7th June 2004

 

Name	Job Title	Organisation	Comments
Anna MacFarlane	Social Worker	Youth Offending Team	Thought provoking, powerful and encouraging - it helps you see the situation from so many points of view
Jan Russell	Youth Justice Worker	Youth Offending Team	It differs from any other training course I have attended in a really positive way. It was stimulating, challenging and gave thoughts and feelings to the character role that is invaluable. It is a learning experience second to none.
Jim Park	Social Worker	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	Brilliantly acted - a great insight into thoughts and feelings - good training for less experienced workers.
Jo Bates	Social Worker	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	An excellent, innovative and creative style of training.
Katie Henjes	Practitioner	Chrysalis Team	Don't attend if you want a peaceful ride!
Lisa Pugh	Youth Justice Worker	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	The whole day was excellent, powerful and thought provoking.
Richard Hunter	Personal Advisor	NCH Slough Leaving Care Team	You feel the emotions and pain of Paul and his family which gives you a better understanding of why abuse can occur.
Rosie German	Senior Practitioner	Chrysalis Team	Good mix of learning tools and able to contribute through group working and hear others questions as well. Interesting, powerful and very useful to our work with young people with sexually problematic behaviour.
Sara Radford	Student Social Worker	Brighton & Hove Youth Offending Team	Very sparky! Holds attention from beginning to end. Workshops provide a spontaneous and good humoured way of rehearsing questions and techniques. Unique training experience.
Sue Hill	Social Worker	Youth Offending Team	Very interactive. Kept you interested right up to the evaluation sheet!

Cardiff - 28th September 2004

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Susan Howells	Caerphilly Social Services	Family Support Worker	Today was more powerful than other training and the workshops are a great way to involve all participants.
Anon	Rhondda Cynon Taff Social Services	Social Worker	An excellent non intimidating way of getting a difficult topic considered whilst providing an opportunity to learn
Eleri Nicholas	Lliw Valley Womens Aid	Children's Worker	Very real. Watching it being acted made me look at it as a real situation and think of how I would react in similar situations rather than it just being a case study or a story on paper.
Sarah O'Brien	Miskin Project	Senior Practitioner	Paul's Story made the situation and characters real. Much more so than any other course I have been on
Jay Goulding	Rhondda Cynon Taff Social Services	Social Worker	Engages people on different levels and provides an opportunity to open up different perspectives and gain more understanding.
Barbara Williams - Board	Miskin Project	Social Worker	Creative - Insightful - Hard hitting - Useful - Informative - Fantastic!
Sue Webber	Rhondda Cynon Taff Social Services	Social Worker	Superb acting made this very real and emotional experience allowing a worker to appreciate the young persons position and other family members. Be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions.
Cath Morris	Caerphilly Social Services	Family Centre Manager	An opportunity to reflect on previous practice and be more pro-active in changing current practice
Fiona Campbell	Swansea Women's Aid	Resettlement Worker	Very effective, more emotional, thought provoking - gave entertainment value but stressed severity of young person abuse. Brilliant!
Angela Hart	Rhondda Cynon Taff Social Services	Assistant Team Manager	A very moving experience that makes you experience what the young person is feeling and going through. It's as if at times you are inside the young person's head feeling those emotions and reactions.
Seren Davies	Swansea Women's Aid	Young Women's Worker	Dynamic, emotive, impressive and moving
Sarah Morgan	Neath Women's Aid	Refuge Child Co-ordinator	Really feel Paul's emotions
Nadja Jones	Clinical Service Manager	Rubicon	Excellent value for money. This is a powerful and provoking learning tool that will get you thinking about your practice and reaffirm and redirect. Excellent stuff!
Susannah Hollett	Neath Women's Aid	Child & Youth Co-ordinator	I felt that I learnt so much but that I didn't do any work! My head wasn't aching from thinking! A rare opportunity to get inside the heads of victim and abuser and family members.

Harlow - 13th January 2005(Course run by Harlow Womens Aid)

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Rebecca Complin	Womens Aid - Harlow	Move on and outreach admin assistant	Empowering, informative and decisive. A must see.
Anne Keyes	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	Floating Support	Pauls Story felt real and didn't hold anything back.
Jackie Marsh	Womens Aid - Harlow	Young Peoples Support Worker	An insightful and very powerful story which makes you more aware
Victoria Pestell	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	AFSW	Very effective and felt very real
Susan King	Womens Aid - Harlow	Chair of Trustees	Felt totally absorbed, very realistic, tough and challenging
Ann Marie Sweetland	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	Floating Support - Safer Communities	Differs because it is acted out - really brings it home to you - lots of detail too.
Angie Sayer	Epping Forest District Council	Homelessness Prevention Officer	Very powerful and thought provoking - much better than watching a video or listening to a speaker
Alison Ims	Essex Police	Police Officer - DVLO	Powerful, eye opener and the reality
Donna Wall	Epping Forest District Council	Homelessness Prevention Officer	Strong, direct, truthful story that makes you think in more depth about abuse and how it affects peoples lives.
Carol Foreman	Harlow PCT	Nursery Nurse	Helps you to understand the reasons why young people abuse - not just sexual deviants.
Barbara Barker	Womens Aid - Harlow	Family Worker	Never been on training quite as painful and effective in its delivery. Excellent to experience.
Clare Campbell	Harlow PCT	School Nurse	The interactive sections where the actors did what we suggested were very useful.
Collette	Womens Aid - Harlow	Floating Support	10 out of 10!
Sally Panrucner	Womens Aid - Harlow	Family Support Worker	Entertaining, powerful, thought provoking, interesting
Sam Randall	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	Assistant Family Support Worker	It showed me that these young people are put in a box and are not listened to alot of the time. Emotional and helps you see it from the young persons point of view.
Joanne Clinton	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	Assistant Family Support Worker	Insight into sexual abuse, emotional, helps you to understand where the young people are coming from and the kind of things we can do to help them through the experience. Visual learning is more helpful to understand and grasp the situation.
Gill Johnson	Essex Police	DVLO	Much more in depth than any other theatre group ever attended.
Karin Edme	Womens Aid - Harlow	Child Psychologist	It plunges you directly into trying to deal with strong emotions together with keeping up with efficient decision making and thinking. Striking and mind gripping.
Julie Holliland	Womens Aid - Harlow	Assistant Family Support Worker	The performance gives a good insight into real situations including domestic violence.
Maria Yiangou	Womens Aid - Harlow	Domestic Violence Children's Advocate	A frightening authentic example of real life experiences - the reality of the situation is quite overwhelming. A fantastic educational resource and a real eye opener.
S. Chambers	Womens Aid - Harlow	Assistant Family Support Worker	It is real life. An eye opening story of abuse and it's effects.
Hannah Stanley	Chelmsford Women's Aid	Child Support Worker	It was hard to hear but is real and is happening. Excellent insight into a case of sexual abuse.
Sharon Ounzain	Chelmsford Women's Aid	Refuge Worker	Superb acting and knowledge of the subject matter made the whole experience very real. A real insight into the affects of sexual abuse through the eyes of the abuser and the victim.
Alison Austin	Chelmsford Women's Aid	Outreach Worker	Incredibly useful way of putting across what is an emotive and at times taboo subject.
Jill Turner	Chelmsford Women's Aid	Refuge Worker	Interesting and powerful
Isabel Cox	Womens Aid - Harlow	Assistant Family Support Worker	Very impressionable and affective - a good way of imprinting it in ones mind. Excellent way to express and show sexual behaviour difficulties within the childs mind and the family situations.
Elaine Hickley	SVHA	Homelessness Officer	I felt I was involved in the situation and gained a real feeling of how Paul felt.
Alain Shears	Harlow & Broxbourne Womens Aid	Assistant Director (Outreach)	Excellent training and a true learning experience
Frances Salmon	Harlow PCT	Health Visitor	A powerful insight into sexual abuse
Julia Brown	Womens Aid - Harlow	Trustee	This is very practical, thought provoking and hits all your emotions. Highly recommended.
Pamela Young	Basildon Women's Refuge	Service Development Manager	Powerful, emotional and real.
Diana O'Brien	Basildon Women's Aid	Outreach Worker	This workshop was very powerful and visual and I felt I was a part of Paul's Story. The participation in giving advice and the questions we wanted answers to was excellent.
Joyce Sweeney	Essex County Council	Partnership Co-ordinator	More training in this very emotive format is needed for mutli-agency settings that deliver services to children, young people and their families. This is very powerful stuff and will be remembered for a very long time. Hard hitting, thought provoking and practice changing.

Hull - 27th September 2006(Course run by Hull Local Safeguarding Children's Board)

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Alex Carling	Hull Women's Aid	Playworker	It is a very emotive, realistic and thought provking play - very well conducted.
Anwen Jones	East Area Family Resource Centre	Social Worker	I feel that I have been able to understand and learn from this type of learning experience a lot better than "normal" courses. Brill!
Barbara Carlill	Ashwell Pupil Referral Unit	Teaching Assistant	I believed what I was hearing and I didn't lose interest once which quite often happens after lunch on other courses. By performing the story it made it much more interesting, powerful and gave better understanding than watching a video, powerpoint or lecturer.
Barry Inzani	Eastern Hull PCT	Student Health Visitor - Registered Nurse	Very audience interactive - good to see various thoughts challenged and not just accepted within the "box".
Claire Lee	Looked After Children Team	Health Co-ordinator	Creative, dynamic, powerful, goes "through you" real and emotive.
Clare Harrison	East Area Family Resource Centre	Social Worker	This kind of learning experience is more helpful than others because the characters become real. There are many opportunities to empathise, put self in characters "shoes" and look at the options. Excellent - gained a lot from the day - definitely recommend to colleagues!
Diane Sanders	Social Services	Family Support Worker	Unforgettable and showed great insight.
Debbie Rice	Young Peoples Support Service	Personal Adviser	It was very disturbing but realistic, not a training course to miss.
Elaine O'Malley	Children and Families Disability Team	Family Support Worker	Powerful and in your face
Elizabeth Butterick	Youth Offending Team	Senior Youth Justice Officer	Thought provoking, reality check, how damaging families can be.
Gemma Rute	Humberside Police	Police Officer - Domestic Violence Unit	A thoroughly enjoyable and unique learning/training course especially as based on a true story. Outlines a multitude of issues within a family.
Harriet Benson	Social Services	Family Support Worker	This is certainly thought provoking. It is a very good way of undertaking a training session as it is very real and visually powerful. I wish more courses were designed like this one.
Ian Bolton	RAPP	Development Worker	Thought provoking emotional rollercoaster through Paul's life and experiences. Fantastic!!
Jane Davies	Social Services	Family Placement Officer	Very useful way to learn as you watch the story unfold. Very powerful.
Jane Wilson	West Hull PCT	Health Visitor	A powerful presentation with little in the way of instruction. I spent much of the time reflecting on my professionalism, my approach, knowledge base etc. Terrific. Don't miss it!
J. Tarbottom	Children and Family Services	Senior Care Officer	Very intense, brings the information to the front - continually challenging thought throughout the day.
Karen Milton	Hull PCT	Health Visitor	It gives you a visual and very emotive picture of events. A very emotional and thought provoking story
Karina Allen	Looked After Children's Team	Health Co-ordinator	It made me feel uncomfortable at times and the shouting made me feel unnerved. If that made me feel uncomfortable, how must it feel for a child/victim of abuse.
Leigh Latham	West Hull PCT	Team Leader	The emotional impact is much greater than other courses. Powerful.
Lindsey Leonard	Health and Social Care	Children Homes Manager	A must for all practitioners within the field of social care. Should be put on the induction training for all new staff.
Liz Railton	Social Services	Senior Social Worker	The whole experience made me think about how professionals can get it wrong. Thought provoking.
Lorna Morris	Hull and East Riding Health Authority	Designated Nurse For Looked After Children	Riveting and thought provoking. It was excellent.
Louise Savage	Child and Adolescent Primary Mental Health Team	Primary Mental Health Worker	Very emotive, realistic and not text book! Makes workers feel supported, gives understanding and is motivating!
Lyn Brown	Hull Women's Aid	Children's Worker	Very realistic and powerful.
Lynn Arber	Health	Health Visitor	Raised awareness of the impact of abuse on the whole family. Very realistic.
Marie Holmes	Social Services	Social Worker	This is much more powerful and seems very real looking at the horrifying impact abuse has on the whole family. Powerful and moving.
Matt Sutcliffe	Social Services	Senior Case Officer	Effective, entertaining, stimulating, powerful and above all memorable! If you want to learn about young people who abuse in a way that changes your practice. Go to this!
Pam Johnson	Social Services	Family Placement Officer	The style of "Paul's Story" brough it alive. Highly recommend this training especially for student social workers.
Pat Panitz	Hull SSD	Supervising Social Worker	Far more visual, thought provoking and upsetting. This is real life. Not theories or models.
Paul Browning	Stepney Primary School	Headteacher - Child Protection Co-ordinator	Emotionally stimulating and thought provoking. A welcome release/alternative to a barrage of theory.
Philippa Boynton	West Hull PCT	Health Visitor	Realistic, thought provoking, makes you feel as if you are living the experience.
Richard West	YPSS	Personal Adviser	Forget your pre-conceptions of what abuse is - Paul's Story will open your eyes.
Sally Stork	Hull PCT	Health Visitor Homeless Health Team	The style encourages spontaneous, thoughtful interaction in a "safe environment". Brilliantly organised and challenging to your practice of working with young people.
Sam Heppenstall	AB Lodge	Family Placement Worker/Service Enquiry Team Social Worker	Brilliant - Keeps you interested, involved and makes you reflect on your own practice.
Sandra Waites	Health	Health Visitor	A well presented though provoking day which allows time for ideas to be shared.
Sarah Matindale	The Lemon Tree Childrens Centre	Parent and Child Support Worker	The drama is so powerful that you can't possibly go away not challenged in some way. I was gripped throughout. Unique.
Silvia Madrid	Children and Family Services - Residential	Children's Home Manager	Interactive, real, keeps the participants interest throughout the day.
Stephen Houghton	Health and Social Care Residential Services	Children's Home Manager	Powerful, engaging and real. Would benefit all workers.
Steve Blackledge	Social Services	Social Worker	Visual, just not about sitting and discussing issues.
Steve Scott	Hull Parks and Gardens	Customer Services Manager	Brilliantly acted, good balance of interactive parts. Moving, challenging and strangely - almost cleansing! Keep up the good work.
Therese Murray	Hull PCT	Health Visitor	Powerful, emotive and got the messages about working with families across in a different way.
Tracey Brown	Social Services	Senior Care Officer	"Paul's Story" seemed real because it was done in a way that expressed deep feelings and anger.
Wendy Meyer	Eastern Hull PCT	Community Nursery Nurse	Very emotional and thought provoking around the issues of sexual abuse.
Yvonne Kinghorn	YPSS	Personal Adviser Additional Needs	The story is alive rather than a paper written case study. A real portrayal of the struggle families and young people go through to be heard. It demistifies the role of the professional and helps above all to never stop working with hope.

Hull - 14th December 2006(Course run by Hull Local Safeguarding Children's Board)

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Rob Rooney	Hull Social Services	Social Worker	Well acted and well researched - I can see this from my own experience. It graphically hammers home some lessons which have to be absorbed by workers in the field
Salas Abrahams	East Area Family Resource Centre	Social Worker	It gave a vision that young abusers can have underlying problems to deal with and that is the reason for their behaviour
Angela Loughlin	Sutton Place Safe Centre	Deputy Manager	Paul's Story is inspiring and would promote workers insight when working with young people in crisis. It demonstrates that there is a massive resource in ourselves.
Tina Nicholls	Riverside Family Resource Centre	Family Support Worker	Very emotional and realistic; good group work enabled me to hear others opinions and learn from others experiences
Gail Thornton	YPSS - Stonefield House	Counsellor	Amazing, thought provoking and a great learning experience
Jo Bonds	Stepwise, SSD	Specialist Social Worker	A completely different learning experience - the best training I've been on in ages
Glenn Hughes	Social Services	Personal Advisor	Absolutely brilliant, I was mesmerised. Powerful, gripping, interesting and well worth attending. Thanks for a great training day!!
Mark Carpenter	Humberside Police	Neighbourhood Officer	Go to it! It is excellent!
Wendy Sheriff	East Hull Family Resource Centre	Social Worker	Wow! Very emotive. Made me cry.
Tina Lowther	Social Services	Family Support Worker	The performance was powerful and gripping - Making me want to learn more about this young person.
Lucy Burnham	Thanet Primary School	Trainee Teacher (GTP)	The mothers insights were particularly useful. Well-planned. Interesting to listen to various viewpoints about the situation
Vicky Burrell	Social Services	Social Worker	A very powerful story portrayed in a sensitive and informative way. A truly spectacular way of gaining information
Sue Moore	Social Services	Social Worker	Excellent and essential to all workers in this field!
Tom Waltham	Estcourt Primary School	Trainee Teacher	It was exciting, tiring and extremely emotional but incredibly useful to watch and take part in. A truly wonderful, exciting and deeply emotional journey.
Siobhan Larkman	Youth Offending Team	Parenting Officer	What a brilliant day - Over 15 years I have gone on numerous courses but never have they conveyed such a powerful message in such a professional excellent way.
Julie White	Francis Askew Primary School	Trainee Teacher	A realistic approach to a common real life situation
Pete Hills	YPSS	Social Worker	Much more provocative and thought provoking. Demands a response and messages are easier to retain with style of learning. Excellent, appropriate, relevant, insighful, really useful and intense.
Danielle Robilliard	Elgar Road Childrens Home	Care Officer	Was great to see the two sides - the workers and the family. Very realistic and thought provoking - a must for anyone working with young people/children
Janet Thompson	Elgar Road Childrens Home	Senior Care Officer	We see "Paul" every day - It makes me wonder if we help - maybe now we can do it a bit better.
Ann High	Elgar Road Childrens Home	Care Officer	Powerful drama.
Vicky Smith	Kinloss Garth Childrens Home	Care Officer	Very good acting, very moving and enjoyable
Lucy Gibbins	Riverside FRC	Social Worker	The way in which the course is facilitated assists you to focus on your practice. Emotive, reflective, empowering, thought provoking.
Maria Spence	Young Peoples Support Service	Personal Adviser	A safe environment that you can use to explore how you as a practitioner would start to work with such a complicated situation. - Excellent!!
Michelle Colrein	Riverside FRC	Social Worker	Shock factor, reality check, in your face experience!
Gina Mattinson	Social Services	Personal Adviser	Powerful explosive training course. Well done. Excellenet performances.
Sue Phillips	Thanet Primary	Trainee Teacher	A very heart rending experience. An excellent way of relaying information and empowering one to self evaluate your own judgements and attitudes towards such things.
Jean Myers	Supported Lodgings		Very true to life.
Norman Fletcher	Social Services	Senior Social Worker	Thought provoking experience that helps to motivate your work
Suzanne Pinder	Hull Fostering Team	Social Worker	It provokes a much more emotional response, the impact of which means better learning/insight.
Jo Pearson	Wyke FRC	Team Manager	Very powerful - puts points over in a very "real" way
Christine Bloor	Social Services	Family Support Worker	It is never boring - By being more visual and actual it is impressed deeper and therefore more memorable. The interaction is excellent and thought provoking.
Rhonda Crossland	Fostering Team Hull	Foster Carer	Very strong and emotional
Elaine Nifton	Hull Initiative	Senior Social Worker	A useful insight into the dilemmas for different family members. Gives a better impact in terms of emotional content and family dynamics.
Maria Ffoulkes	Supported Lodgings YPSS	Supported Accommodation Worker	Fantastic!
Sheila Beney	YPSS	Personal Adviser	This learning experience is very powerful, thought provoking, emotive and emotional.
DC 1853 Shaw	Humberside Police	Family Protection Team	It wasn't information overload, it was a powerful portrayal of emotions and a sharing of ideas
Louise Taylor - Deville	Childrens and Young Peoples Services	Childrens Home Manager	It was real! - The story comes to life, presented with the emotions and feelings. I was totally engaged throughout. Absolutely brilliant!!
Rob Hocking	Humberside Police Vulnerable Witness Training	Trainer	In the classroom you are told how it is, in Paul's Story you are part of it!
Janet Dean	Social Services YPSS	Personal Adviser	The performance was excellent and very powerful!
Wayne Rowson	Families and Friends Service	Social Worker	It makes such a difference to see sensitive issues being performed in this manner. The message is far stronger than words alone.
Hilary Clark	Young People's Supported Lodgings	Carer	Compelling, excellent acting, flexible and innovative.
Glenis Penrose	East Area FRC	Social Worker	Excellent! It makes you more aware regarding the underlying problems of abuse.
Jo Blacker	Francis Askew Primary School	Trainee Teacher	Powerful real life performance, giving us the chance to interact with the story and put our questions to the characters
Adele Mitchell	Riverside FRC	Social Worker	Realistic and emotionally charged which gives more emphasis to the story/training
Rosalind Spencer	YPSS	Supported Accommodation Worker	Graphic, upsetting, but made me face sexual abuse from different angles. If you need to get a deeper understanding of sexual abuse by being able to face the reality and prepare to be shocked.
Claire Hedges	YPSS	Supported Accommodation Worker	Very emotive - be prepared!
Karen Bailey	Children and Families Social Services	Senior Care Officer	It was fantastic, made you listen, I was totally enthralled throughout. Brilliant, eye opening, funny, sad, emotional and thought provoking.
Jackie Henry	Children and Families Social Services	Senior Care Officer	Thoroughly emotional and thought provoking experience
Trev Elvin	Police	Risk Management	Wonderful emotive portrayal of a difficult subject.
Linda Bonner	Children and Young Persons Services	Social Worker	Lively, emotional, shocking, informative

Liverpool - 29th June 2004

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Ali McDonald	Wirral Women's & Children's Aid	Child Development Worker	A good chance to explore together rather than be talked at.
Barbara Kelly	Barnardos	Social Worker	Plenty of information delivered in a dynamic and thought provoking way. Useful to look at my practice through the eyes of a young person.
Connie Rachael	Tameside YOT	Case Manager	The training does not "teach you information", but reminds you of the devastating impact of sex offending - brings it back to a personal level, has an emotional impact, made abuse seem "real".
Darren Johnson	St Helens MBC	Residential Social Worker	Terrific use of time. Excellent training tool. Powerful in your face approach, which puts you in the driving seat.
Denise Edwards	Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch	Training and Development Officer	Real. Gets you to take notice. Stops individuals going off on their own soap box!
Marcell Booth	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Sister	Powerful and thought provoking performance. Very useful to interact with other agencies.
Alison McCaldon	Connexions	Personal Advisor	A unique piece of art and without a doubt exceptional value for money! A once in a life time experience but an experience that will influence your life!
Faran Ashraf	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Sister	A realistic, powerful and moving story of the effects of sexual abuse. Thought provoking and interesting throughout the day.
Fiona Dulson	Connexions	Personal Advisor	Excellent performance - very useful day. Gives you the opportunity to reflect on your own working practice. Very useful that the play looks at both an "abuser" and an abused. Often training is focussed on either a victim or the perpetrator, giving you a one-sided viewpoint.
Geoffrey Owen	St Helens MBC	Residential Social Worker	The story is extremely realistic and could be a typical example of abuse by various family members which can escalate and lead to awful problems.
Graham Sherwood	St Helens MBC	Senior Residential Social Worker	All of the content was relevant to the setting in which I work. More "hands-on" especially useful to have the opportunity to guide/assist the worker during her interviews/sessions with Paul.
Jeanette Turner	St Helens MBC	Senior Residential Social Worker	Paul's Story brings the experience of sexual abuse by and to young people into sharp focus in the way that reading a case study cannot. It challenges your perception of young people who sexually abuse.
Jonathan Pike	YMCA	Support Worker	Drama is a very effective tool to get across the emotions felt by the young person.
Julie Nixon	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Staff Nurse	Excellent. You must attend.
Kate Newman	Flintshire Neighbourhood Watch	Communities First Officer	The theatrical approach held my attention all day (unusual for me!). It is an innovative approach, real and though provoking.
Lindsay Wroe	Halton & Warrington Youth Offending Team	YOT Officer	Provides a depth that's missing from usual chalk/talk courses. Paul's Story brings the subject to life.
Louise Quinn	NSPCC Children's & Young People's Centre		Excellent, the best training event I've been to. You experience what it is like to be each member of the family and the family's worker. Absorbing, thought provoking, has to be experienced.
Mylene Marshall	SWIIS Foster Care	Foster Carer	The performance really brought home the story, especially listening to what is going on in Paul's head. Its hard for the children I work with to articulate like that and it helped me to understand more about them.
Nicola Shanahan	Domestic Violence Team	Domestic Violence Support Worker	One of the best training courses I have been on. An effective tool for people to remember what is being taught. A thought provoking day and far better than being lectured to.
Paul Kelly	Aintree Hospital NHS Trust	Staff Nurse	Paul's Story allows you to think around the process, so it opens your mind and your views.
Rebecca Morgan	Wirral Women's & Children's Aid	Play Worker	Mind blowing!

London - 9th June 2003

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Adrian Quinn	Manager	Solihull Youth Offending Team	Enables hands on learning by engaging the audience in the process. An engaging learning experience.
Amber Foskett	YOT Officer	Bournemouth & Poole YOT	More realistic view - as opposed to dry reading material. A realistic hard hitting performance.
Brian Hogan	Acting director	Oberstown Boys School	A dynamic hard hitting quality event - A good learning experience
Debbie Taylor	Youth Justice Worker	West Sussex YOT	I don't think I had any concentration lapses. The experience was very powerful and I believe the memories and experience will endure.
Garry Manifold	YOT Officer	Sheffield Youth Offending Team	Provides good insight into the world of the abuser and helps to see how abusers might be helped to take responsibility
Gill Carver	Consultant	Solihull Youth Offending Team	The opportunity to observe, participate and learn in an innovative way. Different from the normal didactic training we receive.
Holly Evans	Head of Care	Branas Isaf Personal Development Centre	Powerful, moving, thought provoking - made me cry!
John Hough	Senior Practitioner	Bexley Youth Offending Team	Challenging, thought provoking
Kelly Brown	Group Co-ordinator	Walsall Youth Offending Service	Powerful and appropriate training that will enable you to both understand issues concerning children who sexually abuse and try out strategies of approach.
Martin Weir	YOT Officer		Thought provoking, electric, intense, emotional and interactive.
Rob Woodcock	Senior Social Worker	Walsall Youth Offending Service	An excellent interactive approach to an issue which workers can bring many barriers to.
Susan Tiernan	YOT Officer		Moving, emotional, powerful and overall excellent.
Timothy Flynn	Young Person's Mental Health Specialist	ART Service - Lewisham	Excellent, powerful, effective, well thought out. It touched my insides. It was less intellectual and more emotional - we have the facts already - this helped interpret those facts.

London - 18th October 2006

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Melissa Playfair	Newmartin Community Youth Trust	Restorative Justice Worker	Grabs your attention and holds it right to the end! Great!
Yvonne Shaw	South Essex Trust	Specialist Nurse for Child Protection	A visual and realistic representation of the wider and deeper issues relating to sexual abuse regarding victims, perpetrators and how they can become one and the same
Shelly Khaled	Newham YOT	Training and Development	This was like no other course I had been to. Not only were they professional actors, they were also professional workers, that were able to deliver in a unique and impactful way.
Aarunima Bhatnagar	Newham Asian Women's Project	Health Promotion Officer	Excellent experience. An eye opener!
Dave Butterworth	Reading Youth Offending Team	Social Worker	Hard-hitting and powerful. A reminder of the need to focus on the families feelings around the needs of the child
Georgina Knappe	Barnardos Tapestry Project	Project Worker	Really enjoyable interactive programme. Trainers tend to make group members do the hard work. This was a great experience.
Nicole Berry	Torbay Council Children's Services	Family Group Conference Co-ordinator	Paul's Story was incredibly moving from the outset. I was surprised at just how powerful it was and the wide range of emotions demonstrated throughout. It felt real.
Freda Mash	Westminster Children and Community Services	Social Worker	It was presented in a very realistic way which had sharper impact and this created a better way of understanding the perpetrator of abuse, their motivations, their feelings and their own unmet needs.
Jean Chaplin	Social Care Services	Senior Practitioner	Whilst watching the story unfold I have been thinking about how I would respond. In the small groups, directed on task, my thoughts as well as others have developed and agreed upon. An excellent way to learn. Go along and experience what life might be like and know you had some say in what happend and you helped a little!
Stephanie Yeshurun	Westminster Children and Community Services	Social Worker	Good learning experience. Very moving. Not boring at all. Helps to start a thinking process. Thanks a lot!
Debra Kennedy	Wrexham Borough Council	School Based Youth Work Co-ordinator	Realistic, interesting. The impact of drama enables a deeper understanding rather than just simple statistics dictated on other training events.
Ioanna Mouchtari	Family Welfare Association	Therapeutic Family Worker	Very experiential and a cornerstone in my learning journey.
Diana Hinds	Family Welfare Association	Therapeutic Family Worker	I was worried about attending this session because I thought it would be a difficult subject to address because it was about the abuser, but it has made me more open minded. Creative, thinking out of the box, effective way of learning
Jo Sawtell	Adolescent Resource Team	Mentoring Co-ordinator and Restorative Justice Worker	Very powerful and very worthwhile. It enabled me to properly engage an actual case of abuse going on.
Kate Brown	Enfield Social Services	Social Work Manager	Powerful, thought provoking and excellent
	Berkshire Womens Aid	Worker	It was absolutely brilliant. Excellent actors. It was very upsetting but sexual abuse is! An amazingly real re-enactment. Be prepared to cry and laugh but learn loads.
	Berkshire Womens Aid	Worker	It is a dynamic training event that uses non-directed approach and allows you to get involved in the decision making process of where to take intervention. It helps you reflect on different ways of supporting these children. Inspiring, moving, challenging and exceptional!
Michelle Roberts	Enfield Social Services	Social Worker	The trainings is vivid, it gives you the opportunity to look at abuse in a way you may not have experienced before.
Sally Thomas	Specialist Assessment and Therapy Service	Therapeutic Social Worker	Powerful to see the family as a whole.
Angela Atkin	Southend Womens Aid	Childrens Advocate	Paul's Story open your eyes to the topic by making it real and resolving the issues.
Jan Monte-Colombo	Enfield Children's Services	Social Worker	Experiential, visual, emotional, memorable, powerful, excellent!
Carole Gand	South Essex Primary Care Trust	Health Visitor	Makes it real, challenges current/personal thinking, makes you think!
Elaine Jarrett	Adolescent Resource Team	Volunteer/Mentoring Co-ordinator	Very powerful!

Newcastle - 24th February 2004

Name	Organisation	Job Title	Comments
Alaine Robson	Connexions	Keyworker - PAYP	Dynamic and powerful. The interaction and workshops produced more topics to discuss with peers.Powerful and direct. Brilliant!
Andrea Spanner	Foster Care Associates NE	Foster Carer	Gives you a feeling of how powerful the emotions are. A very powerful and moving experience.
Barbara Boydell	Connexions	PAYP Worker	Paul's Story is a dynamic, different method of training which kept me motivated and interested. Because this method is more visual you can put yourself in the characters' position.
Carol Myers	Connexions Tyne and Wear	Personal Adviser	Very real. The way individuals were portrayed was very powerful.
Cath Simpson	Sure Start	Family Resource Worker	A good overview of abuse from each person's perspective.
Cathy Davis	Foster Care Associates NE	Foster Carer	A very real experience. Challenged your thought processes. Good medium which made you feel more part of the process the family was going through. More interactive.
Claire Ault	Gateshead YOT	Youth Offending Team	Paul's Story provided me with additional ideas to enable my team to work more effectively with young people who sexually harm. It has had more impact, I remained engaged throughout - it felt real rather than abstract. Paul's Story brings to life the pain, distress and turmoil suffered by young people who sexually abuse. It, unlike some training, remembers to look at the strengths of these young people and their families.
Debra Payne	NSPCC	Children's Services Practitioner	A more whole experience. It felt more real.Innovative, interesting and absorbing.
Elaine White	Connexions T.V.	Practice Development Worker	Has aided understanding and made me think about how I would approach interviewing a young person, taking their feelings more into consideration. Much more interactive. The acting was very believable and engrossing and allowed us to watch how different strategies can play. No boring power point presentations. Engrossing, believable, a different experience. A good way to deliver a training course.
Evelyn Dixon	Durham Social Services Dept	Family Worker	Much more visual, holds your interest, draws you into the situation. A very powerful, emotive, thought provoking course. Brilliantly portrayed.
Frances White	Sure Start	Programme Manager	Very interactive which keeps your interest throughout the entire session. Awareness raising particularly the feelings of victims.
Gary Connor	Sex Offender Team	Probation Officer	Excellent and informative. The mix of drama and interaction is a good balance that ensures participation but allows exploration of the issues fully. Overall very powerful.
Gillian Johnson	Stockton Youth Offending Service	Probation Officer	Thought provoking in looking at your own ways of working and relating to young people.
Gloria Sloan	Foster Care Associates NE	Foster Carer	More in depth and interesting.
Jane Horn	NSPCC - Wedgewood Centre	Children's Services Practitioner	Powerful - Emotional - Experiential
Karen Gallagher	Durham County Council	Senior Child Care Co-ordinator	Powerful - Thought provoking. It reminded me to acknowledge my own feelings, be objective and non-judgemental.
Karen Marshall	City of York ACPC	ACPC Training and Development Officer	Engaging, challenging, grabbed me and didn't put me down until time to go! The way in which information was given is excellent. Much easier to engage with material - involves feelings which helps learning to "stick".
Kate Harland	Redcar & Cleveland Women's Aid	Childcare Co-ordinator	Have never attended any training like this - Brill!
Lilyan Edmunds - Brown	Stockton Health & Social Care	Foster Carer	Very realistic. A good insight into the child's thoughts. Useful to hear the mother's outlook and how she dealt with her life.
Marian Allen	Stockton Health & Social Care	Social Worker	Very powerful impact. A way to see how a young person is feeling by hearing it said. NOT for the faint hearted
Michele Collings	Pathways to Work	Project Co-ordinator	More 3D - You felt actors played roles fully. Helps you to remember the full picture.
Neil Ventress	Review & Development Unit	Training & Development Co-ordinator	I have never been to any other training event which was so demanding emotionally! Paul's Story puts you in touch with the feelings of a young abuser and his mother and demonstrates all the problems of trying to help Paul and his family. A training event unlike any other.
Paul Slight	NSPCC	Social Worker	Very powerful, high impact stuff, appeals directly to the emotions and feelings levels of all parties. Dynamic, different, definitely up to the mark on raising key issues in relation to this work.
Peter Hollis	Foster Care Associates NE	Foster Carer	More powerfully presented. More life-like and relevant.
Peter Sanderson	Darlington YOT	Youth Offending Service Officer	More graphic, more direct, very effective, very positive.
Phil Stobart	Sunderland Social Services Directorate	Deputy Manager	The learning style is totally different. Excellent - really gets the message home.
Rachel Jamieson	NSPCC	Children's Services Practitioner	Emotive, encouraging, challenging.
Ray Stokes	Connexions Tyne and Wear	Personal Adviser	Excellent, worth-while, thought provoking and enjoyable.
Rosie Hutchinson	Connexions Tyne and Wear	Personal Adviser	It was far more realistic and powerful due to the drama/talents of those delivering it whilst still including the audience as participants. Rivetting from beginning to end. The most powerful training I have been on. Emotive, informative, thought provoking and compelling. Essential for anyone doing this kind of work.
Stuart Southwick	Connexions Tyne and Wear	Personal Adviser	Very informative, interesting, maintains interest and very involving. Felt part of the session. My confidence has grown. Everything was useful and of a high quality. Sharing strategies and methods of work helps. Amazing, interactive and compelling.

Reading - 16th June 2005

Hannah Williams	Southwark YOT	Senior Practitioner - Sexually Aggressive Behaviour	Very powerful....essential for anyone working with sexuallu abusive behaviour
Pete West	Southwark YOT	Early Intervention Worker	Essential training. Much more personal/powerful and though provoking. It maintained my attention all day - quite an achievement!!!
Helen Stanbra	Prince Henrys High School/Worcestershire Sexual Abuse and Rape Support Centre	Counsellor	Very powerful! A fantastic multi - sensory way of understanding the issues surrounding sexual abuse.
Anji Jeffery	NSPCC North Swindon Family Centre	Childrens Services Practitioner	Very powerful. Helped me to look at the full picture.
Julia Worms	Thames Valley Partnership	Close To Home Project Manager "Stop It Now" Co-ordinator - Thames Valley	Excellent use of dramatic interaction. Powerful use of drama rather than factual "chalk and talk".
Sarah Baron	Reading & Wokingham YOT	Project Worker	An excellent way to learn. Right balance of observation and participation. Superbly acted, hard-hitting, emotive, extremely realistic, totally absorbs you and leaves you to reflect on your own practice.
Jo Partridge	Bracknell Forest YOT	Senior Youth Justice Worker	Really excellent training done in a creative and sensitive way. The first training I can remember where I wasn't watching the clock. The whole approach is useful in dealing with a very difficult subject.
Ushma Patel	Ealing Social Services	ACPC Training & Development Co-ordinator	A fantastic learning experience that has such a "real" feel to it.
Andy Sewell	London Probation Area	Probation Officer	An alternative approach to learning which means you can concentrate 100% on it for the whole day.
Jean Hogg	NSPCC South London Safer Communities Project	Child Protection Officer : Children's Services Practitioner	Very, very powerful, engaged with you from the onset. Non threatening involvement of the attendees. Excellent, appropriate and understandable.
Cheryl Vaughan	Berkshire Women's Aid	Child Support Co-ordinator	Brilliant, very different and will hold your attention to the very end. Well done to everyone involved.