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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

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.

Listen to the audio version

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

Editorial

“Recently we have been left with a revolving door feeling, as the different factions of the Tory Government pulled themselves apart. The irony is that whatever their level of competence they remain the Government of inequality, representing the interests of the rich”

Education professionals and the ‘institutional lie’ about cuts

Amelia McLoughlan, ALLFIE’s Policy and Research Officer, and Joe Whittaker, ALLFIE Trustee, look at the role of education professionals involved in the Education, Health and Care Plans process, and highlight how UK government education cuts are failing SEND learners – including from a human rights perspective under United Nations law.

Maresa MacKeith: “Friendship is fundamental to our humanity; friendship is the soil from which inclusion grows.”

Maresa is an Inclusion Now editorial board member and Quite Riot group member

Supported by

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.