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Read all about the goverment’s review of residential special schools and updates on apprenticeships, selective education and upcoming consultations.

ALLFIE office volunteer Yewande gives her view on current proposals for more grammar schools and other selective education

Our anonymous writer tells us how he was barred from grammar schools in the eighties due to disability.

UK Disability History Month coordinator Richard Rieser writes about this year’s theme: language and disability

Nigel Utton, former headteacher and chair of Heading for Inclusion, explains his views on the government’s proposals to increase the number of grammar and selective schools.

ALLFIE trustee Mike Lambert considers his parenting performance as his daughter turns 21.

Miro Griffiths discusses the implications.

By Francis Peel, Imperial College

Disabled people’s voices are often missing from mainstream history, but texts reveal that a group of blind activists fought for inclusive education during the Victorian times.

Brandon Aughton writes about what inclusion has meant for him as a Disabled child.

If you are reading this, my guess is that you believe in inclusive education for all children and young people, however how do we know when inclusion becomes exclusion? To achieve inclusion in an inclusive setting, is educating a child outside of the classroom necessary? When and if it happens what stops it from turning into another form of exclusion?

Mark Leach writes about Charles Dickens’s portrayals of Disabled children and education