Parliamentary Briefings & Consultation Responses

Submission to SEND All Party Parliamentary Group on Covid-19 Inquiry

ALLFIE has responded to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) inquiry into the impact of COVID-19 on educational transitions for children and young people with SEND.

Submission to the Education Committee Inquiry: Impact of COVID-19 on Education and Children’s Services

14/08/2020

Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry on The Government’s Response to COVID-19: Human Rights Implications

14/08/2020

Submission to the Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services

13/08/2020

Submission to Children’s Commissioner for England: Covid-19 and Disabled Children’s Education

ALLFIE has responded to the Children’s Commissioner for England research into the impact of Covid-19 reforms and school closures for Disabled children and their families.

04/06/2020

Submission to the SEND review

Read ALLFIE’s submission to the Government’s review into support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

15/05/2020

Letter to Robert Halfon MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee

Our Director, Tara Flood, writes to the Education Select Committee to express her concern about the SEND Inquiry.

3/12/2018

ALLFIE responds to Newham’s proposal to create new special school

ALLFIE has responded to the London Borough’s plan to build a special school for autistic children as follows.

24/09/2018

Submission to the Education Select Committee Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Inquiry

6/14/2018

Submission to the GLA Investigation into SEND Provision in London

Since 2010 the then coalition government and now the Conservative government have taken an ideological decision to prioritise the funding of segregated education over mainstream education for Disabled pupils.

7/10/2017

Response to the Department for Education’s High Needs funding reform – stage 2 consultation

Alliance for Inclusive Education’s response to the Department for Education’s High Needs funding reform – stage 2 consultation.

22/3/2017.

Submission to the Lenehan Review of Residential Special Schools and Colleges

ALLFIE believes the experience of residential special schools cannot be improved because separation from community and family fundamentally undermines the equality and wellbeing of disabled children and young people and harms society, and that parents are not given real choice to keep their children in mainstream local education.

1/3/2017

Supported by

ALLFIE’s campaign for Inclusive Education as a human right is backed by funders and donors who reject the systemic segregation of Disabled people from society.