Inclusion Now 65 | Spring 2023

Welcome to the latest edition of Inclusion Now magazine, inclusive education news including: a tribute to Joe Whittaker, Visit to Pyrcroft Grange School, SEND Review, History of the movement, and more.

Inclusion Now magazine 65 cover - a voice for the Inclusion Movement in the UK. Cover image of Joe Whittaker smiling at the camera wearing a t-shirt with the slogan: 'We Know Inclusion Works' alongside the headline: 'Joe Whittaker was an amazing teacher and campaigner for Inclusive Education'

Welcome to the 65th edition of Inclusion Now magazine. Text and audio versions are in the articles below, or you can read it in magazine format on Issuu.

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Editorial

By Joe Whittaker ALLFIE Trustee and editorial board member

Joe Whittaker was an amazing teacher and campaigner for Inclusive Education

By Richard Rieser

The rise, then fall, of Disabled children’s rights during the past ten years of Conservative Governments

By Joe Whittaker, ALLFIE Trustee

Inclusive practice is alive and well in Surrey

School visit to Pyrcroft Grange Primary by Richard Rieser, World of Inclusion

How could anyone dispute that inclusive education could be anything but positive for everyone?

By S Harris

Fifty years of Disabled children and young people being used as pawns in an ideological battle

By Linda Jordan, Teacher and Parent

The SEND Review: New hope or a further segregation story?

Campaign news from Amelia McLoughlan, ALLFIE’s Campaigns and Policy Coordinator

Review: Essential Insights from a leading thinker of the Inclusion Movement

By Richard Rieser, World of Inclusion

Legal Question

This Legal Question was posed by Joe Whittaker and answered by Emily Chalk, Simpson Millar Solicitors

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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.