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By Dr Edmore Masendeke, ALLFIE’s Policy and Research Lead 

Richard Rieser met George Tappenden, a Young Disabled campaigner, at the highlighting event for winners of the National Equality and Diversity Awards. Kent County Council wanted George to go to a special school, but he and his Mum fought for him to be in mainstream education. 

Sharon Smith, Mother and Researcher, highlights key issues for parents in UK curriculum and assessment reform.

By Iyiola Olafimihan (ALLFIE Justice and Campaigns Lead), Linda Jordan (Inclusion Now Editorial Board member), and Maresa MacKeith (ALLFIE Youth Parliamentary Co-lead).

ALLFIE’s Our Voice project Co-Lead, Yewande Akintelu-Omoniyi, examines how the Labour government’s introduction of the language “mainstream inclusivity” is a distraction from Inclusive Education as a human right and social justice issue.

By Lani Parker, ALLFIE’s Capacity building Lead

Dr Richard Rieser OBE’s take on the government’s curriculum review from the perspective of UK law and United Nations convention. Richard is CEO of World of Inclusion, Coordinator of UK Disability History Month, and General Secretary of the Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum.

This Legal Question was posed by ALLFIE’s Michelle Daley and answered by Dan Rosenberg and Mia Cappabianca, Simpson Millar Solicitors.

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.

You can listen online below, or if you want to download the audio files, right click each article and choose “Save Link As”.

By Edmore Masendeke, ALLFIE’s Policy & Research Lead

“Micheline, 73, was a major leader in the Disability Movement and a brilliant thinker, taking our Movement forward, especially the struggle for Inclusive Education, in a series of quantum moves.” By Richard Rieser, friend, collaborator and comrade.