Press releases

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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

Press Release: Alliance for Inclusive Education Launches 30th Anniversary Campaign

ALLFIE launches new online campaign to celebrate 30 years of campaigning for equal rights for ALL Disabled learners, over 30 days in November.

Press Release: ALLFIE outraged as Government announces plan to create more special schools

21/07/2020

Press release: ‘Accessibility Plans as Effective Tools for Inclusion in Schools, Are They Working?’ research report launch

23 January 2020: For immediate release

New research project report highlights “shocking impact” on disabled pupils of schools’ failures around Accessibility Plans and equality of access.

Press Release: ALLFIE’s Day of Action for Inclusive Education 23rd January 2020

For immediate release: Wednesday 22 January 2020

ALLFIE’s Day of Action marks an important milestone for inclusive education, as our petition ‘Don’t Shut Disabled People Out of Mainstream Education’ reached over 100,000 signatures.

Press Release: Alliance for Inclusive Education launches manifesto for Inclusive Education

ALLFIE launches revised manifesto demanding Government moves to a fully inclusive education system to support human rights.

Press Release: “Being Seen: Being Heard”

New ALLFIE project to support leaders with lived experience thanks to National Lottery funding

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