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ALLFIE’s chair Navin visits the High Wycombe school

Disability accessibility and the Duke of Edinburgh Award – a young Disabled woman talks about her experiences

For the last few years it has felt at times like we have been bashing our heads against a very strong and hostile government brick wall determined to drown out the voice of the inclusive education movement, with government rhetoric about parental “choice” and raising academic standards.

Headteachers are being forced to implement school cuts in England, the bulk of which will hit school support for disabled pupils and those with SEN, behaviour support workers, teaching assistants and individual support teachers, damaging the chances of successful inclusion.

At the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) we were delighted to see that the United Nations recognises the significantly high levels of bullying that disabled children and young people and those with SEN experience at schools in the UK.

The theme of this year’s Disability History Month

Q: I have been in touch with my local authority seeking an Education, Health and Care Plan assessment for my child, but they say their eligibility criteria for EHCP assessments do not include my child’s impairment and even if it did we would have to wait until April 2018 for the start of the new […]

Christine Lenehan, Chair of the Council for Disabled Children, talked to Jess and Yewande from ALLFIE about her review of residential special schools.

Who would have thought when we were starting to put together the Summer 2017 edition of Inclusion Now that we would be calling it a General Election Special?

In March we gave evidence to the UN in Geneva with the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance, presenting our Shadow Report which documents how UK government policies since 2010 have moved backwards against nearly every article of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, including Article 24: Right to Inclusive Education. The CRPD […]

Attending and speaking at the recent Fourth International Conference on Inclusive Education in Dhaka, Bangladesh, I was struck by the energy and commitment to developing inclusive education. Bangladesh has in recent years been operating one of the largest primary education systems in the world for a low income country. Net enrolment is at 98.7% with […]

There is global recognition of the importance of inclusive education, not only in ensuring that every young person enjoys their right to quality education but also as a means of building more inclusive 21st century societies. Yet despite more than 30 years of promising educational innovation, it remains the case that rather few jurisdictions have […]