News & Briefings

Here you’ll find all our news items: blogs, member and parliamentary briefings and consultation responses, as well as our termly magazine, Inclusion Now.

Press Release: Government taken to court for failing the education rights of disabled children as over 40,000 sign up to demand more funding

28/06/2019

The abuse of Disabled people has become routine in institutional settings – it must end now

ALLFIE and other Disabled People’s Organisations speak out about the Panorama coverage of abuse of patients at Whorlton Hall (May 2019).

Press Release: The Government’s Funding Cuts To Mainstream Education are a Breach of Disabled Pupils’ Human Rights

Immediate Embargo:

On the 30th May 2019, the Alliance for Inclusive Education will be joining forces with thousands of National SEND Crisis march protestors against the schools funding crisis at Downing Street.

Goodbye and good luck to Tara Flood, ALLFIE’s CEO

Our trustees pay tribute to Tara’s work and look to the future.

11th March 2019

Press Release: Response to Government Announcement of 39 New Special Schools

The Alliance for Inclusive Education condemns the government’s mass expansion of segregated education, including the establishment of 39 new special academy schools and 2 alternative education schools whilst cutting mainstream school budgets.

Press Release 11th March 2019

Inclusion Now 52 Spring 2019

Read about Tara Flood’s travels through Finland and Canada, the National Day of Action against Disability Discrimination in Education, illegal off-rolling, Seven Sisters Primary School, find out how you can challenge school transport decisions and more…

Press Release: High Court Case

The Alliance For Inclusive Education supports a human rights legal challenge around the provision of support for Disabled pupils with visual impairments within mainstream schooling.

Press Release 21/01/2019.

Press Release: OFSTED Annual Report for 2017/18

ALLFIE shares Ofsted’s concerns that Disabled pupils and students are being forced out of mainstream education but believes the inspection framework itself is part of the problem.

Press release 07/12/2019.

Nov 2018 Briefing: National Day of Action against Disability Discrimination in Education

The Alliance for Inclusive Education is joining forces with education unions for a national day of action against Disability Discrimination in Education. Our focus is on raising MPs’ awareness of the injustices faced by Disabled students when attempting to access mainstream education.

Inclusion Now 51 Autumn 2018

Global Disability Summit and voices from around the world, beyond IQ, putting the principles of the Children & Families Act into practice, legal question around the “tendency to physical abuse” and more…

ALLFIE response to government announcements for Disabled pupils and Christine Lenehan’s “Good Intentions, Good Enough?” report on residential special schools

Press release 21/08/2018

Inclusion Now 50 Summer 2018

Bumper 50th edition! inclusion snakes and ladders, interview with Kevin Courtney and Mary Bousted of the NEU, school visit to Tollgate Primary, young people’s research into EHCPs and more…

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.