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Is Government Working Against the Presumption of Mainstream Education?
By Edmore Masendeke, ALLFIE’s Policy and Research Lead

ALLFIE’s Yewande Akintelu-Ominiyi (Our Voice Project Youth Officer), and Michelle Daley (Director), interview Helen Borley, Headteacher at Mount Stuart Primary School.

ALLFIEs Our Voice, a collective of Young Disabled people, calls out deep rooted discrimination in apprenticeship and internship programmes, including a shocking disparity in pay between Young Disabled people and their non-disabled counterparts, and systemic barriers which cause unequal opportunities transitioning from education to work.

By Iyiola Olafimihan, ALLFIE’s Campaigns and Justice Lead

By ALLFIE’s Michelle Daley (Director) and Navin Kikabhai (Chairperson)

By Hazel Richards; Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University, Stephanie Brewster; Senior Lecturer at University of Wolverhampton, Helen Knowler; Associate Professor, University College London, and Elizabeth Done; Senior Lecturer, University of Plymouth, explain their hopes and fears for the forthcoming mandatory National Professional Qualification (NPQ) for SENCos.

By Navin Kikabhai, ALLFIE Chairperson, and Yewande Akintelu- Omoniyi, ALLFIE Our Voice Youth Officer

This Legal Question was posed by Kathryn Fielding, Development Officer from Goalball UK and answered by Sarah Woosey, Simpson Millar Solicitors

Welcome to the latest edition of Inclusion Now magazine, inclusive education news including the Children and Families Act: Ten Years On, the exploitation of Young Disabled people in internships, Mount Stuart Primary School visit, abuse in segregated educational settings, SENCos development, 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 Sharon Smith, Parent, PhD Researcher and Editorial Board member

In December 2023, a collective of Disabled People’s Organisations and allies took the “End Torture of Disabled people” campaign to Parliament. This collective campaign aims to end the segregation of Young Disabled people in UK educational residential settings, where abuse is rife and private companies profit.