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Janine Booth reading to an audience from a book

May 31, 2018 0

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Backing for national demo on SEND cuts

Disabled trade unionists have unanimously backed calls for a national demonstration this autumn against cuts to support for disabled children and those with special educational needs. Janine Booth, co-chair of the TUC disabled workers’ committee, who proposed the emergency motion, said the government was making “brutal cuts” to special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

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Marsha de Cordova speaking in parliament

May 17, 2018 0

New government rule ‘forces disabled students to choose between food and equipment’

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Thousands of disabled students are being forced to choose between having food to eat or having the equipment they need to study, because a new government rule means they must pay £200 towards the cost of computers they need for disability-related reasons. The government introduced the new rule as part of its controversial reform

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May 3, 2018 0

Flood’s foreign travels will collect evidence to push government on inclusion

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A leading disabled activist is to travel to two of the countries with the best track records in the world on inclusive education in search of evidence to convince UK politicians and civil servants to “rebuild aspiration” for inclusion in mainstream schools. Tara Flood, director of The Alliance for Inclusive Education, is hoping to

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Robert Halfon talking to Sebastian Payne behind a table

April 19, 2018 0

‘Deep concern’ as launch of MPs’ inquiry into SEN support ignores inclusive education

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Campaigners are “deeply concerned” that the launch of a new parliamentary inquiry into the educational support provided for disabled children and young people failed to mention inclusive education. The inquiry by the Commons education select committee will investigate the impact of major reforms to the special educational needs and disability (SEND) system that were

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January 11, 2018 0

Campaigners welcome resignation of ‘progressive eugenics’ journalist

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Campaigners have welcomed the decision of a controversial right-wing writer and free schools advocate to resign from the board of the government’s new higher education watchdog, and say he should never have been appointed. Toby Young’s resignation came just hours after disabled Tory MP Robert Halfon called on his own government to reverse its

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January 4, 2018 0

Anger after writer with ‘insulting’ views on inclusive education is appointed to watchdog

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The government has sparked shock and anger after appointing a controversial right-wing writer and free schools advocate – who made “insulting” and “extremist” comments about inclusive education and eugenics – to the board of its new higher education watchdog. The Department for Education (DfE) announced this week that Toby Young (pictured) was one of

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An overhead view of the delegates in the chamber in Geneva

December 14, 2017 0

Ofsted report ‘shows government is ignoring alarm bells on inclusive education’

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Some parents are being asked to educate their disabled children at home because their schools claim they cannot meet their needs, the education watchdog’s annual report has warned. Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, said in her report that the proportion of disabled children needing support who had been excluded from their schools was “typically

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August 10, 2017 0

Ministers ‘failed to consider impact of rules that would cut university access’

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Ministers have effectively admitted introducing a policy that will prevent many disabled students from entering higher education, without knowing how much money it would save or how many young disabled people would be affected. The admission came in response to a freedom of information (FoI) request that sought to clarify the potential impact of

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Lord Addington speaking in the House of Lords

August 3, 2017 0

Universal credit rules ‘could bar many disabled students from university’

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Many disabled students could effectively be barred from higher education because of the introduction of the government’s new universal credit, according to MPs and peers who have written to the minister for employment. The seven MPs and peers, all members of the all-party parliamentary group for disability, have joined the new chief executive of

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April 6, 2017

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Inclusive education campaigners blame ‘ideological shift’ for rise in segregation

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Campaigners have blamed funding cuts and an “ideological shift” for a sharp rise in the proportion of disabled children being educated in special schools over the last four years. Figures from the Local Government Association (LGA) show the proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who attend a special school in

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