Since January 2007 we have been touring the UK with our Story-Go-Round project, aiming to train library staff and bring them together with special schools. Through this, we hope to leave a local legacy of multi-sensory storytelling and inclusion of youngsters with profound and complex needs. Region by region, we match special schools with libraries, demonstrate storytelling with local children, train library staff, and follow up with story-packs and additional support.

Local libraries are perfect places to start: they know the importance of children's literature, they are at the heart of most communities and they are now more open to inclusion. But very few librarians have experience of working with children with profound special needs. Not all have access to the skills and resources needed to deliver a welcoming, accessible service.

Each day we visit a different library which hosts three story-telling sessions (usually with three different special schools from the local area). This develops the interest of library staff through a "safe" environment by observing and learning about the children's needs, with someone else in control. A fourth session at the end of each day is a training programme giving library staff the skills they need to tell a multi-sensory story themselves. We then follow up the visit by sending a selection of story-packs to each library.