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Inclusion Now 72 | Summer 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of Inclusion Now magazine, inclusive education news including Disabled People’s Movement Uprising, the impact of benefit cuts on Young People, lack of inclusive Relationships and Sex Education and more.

Inclusion Now 71 | Spring 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of Inclusion Now magazine, inclusive education news including the National Curriculum and Assessment review, exposing abuse in a BBC documentary, government language and more.

Inclusion Now 70 | Autumn 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of Inclusion Now magazine, inclusive education news including a tribute to Micheline Mason, inclusive practice from Mel Ainscow, SEND crisis updates, policy news, EHCPs and more.

Press releases See all →

Press release: Research into experiences of Black/Global Majority Disabled pupils uncovers systemic injustice and intersectional erasure

25 April 2023: For immediate release

Austerity Kills: DPOs warn ahead of financial statement

14 November 2022: For immediate release

Press release: ALLFIE’s response to the Government’s National Disability Strategy

28 July 2021: For immediate release

Blog See all →

Reflections on DPOs and Young People Roundtable Event

Our Voice Youth Project Co- Lead, Yewande Akintelu-Omoniyi, reflects on how Disabled People’s Organisations can engage and empower Young Disabled people in leadership and activism work.

Empowering Young people to transform the Disabled People’s Movement

Capacity Building Lead, Lani Parker, reports back on bridging the generational divide in the Inclusive Education movement, and empowering influential youth leaders.

Our Voice project’s in-person event

ALLFIE recently brought together our Young people’s group to connect with each other in person, socialise and work on activism. Yewande Akintelu-Omoniyi, Youth Project Co-Lead, reports back in this photo blog with photography by Qais Khan.

Briefing See all →

The 2025 Schools White Paper – Forwards or Backward? 

ALLFIE is concerned about the possible changes within 2025 White Paper and the impact on the education of Disabled pupils and their rights to it.
Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE), September 2025 

Scrapping EHCPs must lead to Inclusive Education

By: Navin Kikabhai, Iyiola Olafimihan and Michelle Daley

ALLFIE is responding to news reports which suggest that the government are considering reforms to the SEND system including scrapping EHCP entirely.

Disabled children and young people’s equal access to education in Wales

In July 2024, the Welsh Assembly’s Children, Young People and Education Committee published a report on Disabled children and young people’s education. Our Campaigns and Justice Lead, Iyiola Olafimihan, reflects on some of the findings in relation to our inclusive education campaign.

Parliamentary Briefings & Consultation Responses See all →

What does Rachel Reeves’ Budget mean for Inclusive Education?

On Wednesday, 30 October 2024, Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget as chancellor. The budget did not provide for any specific funding to help local authorities or schools improve Disabled people’s participation in mainstream settings, despite improving inclusivity in mainstream settings being one of the Labour party’s main goals for the education sector. 

ALLFIE’s response to NAO inquiry into “Support for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs”

The recent National Audit Office (NAO) inquiry into the planning, support, provisions and spending framework for children and young people labelled with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in England shone a spotlight into DfE and the urgent need for systemic change for Disabled children and young people. The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE), a […]

Letter to Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Disabled People

Following the 2024 General Election, ALLFIE’s Navin Kikabhai and Michelle Daley wrote to Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister for Disabled People, asking for clarity on Labour’s position on UNCRPD Article 24 and ALLFIE’s proposal to develop an education system embedded in justice and rights for every Disabled person.