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Disabled campaigners have raised concerns about government plans to expand an internship programme that could potentially exploit disabled young people. Last week’s budget included plans to spend another £3 million over the next two years on expanding its supported internships programme. […]
The government’s new plans for improving education for disabled children and young people have been described as “wholly insufficient” and an “all-round failure” by disabled people’s organisations. Alongside the long-awaited improvement plan, ministers have announced another “tranche” of new special schools […]
Neurodivergent parents and single mothers are frequently blamed for the behaviours of their autistic children, and even subjected to safeguarding inquiries, when they try to seek support from services, according to new research. The report, based on a survey of more […]
The local authority that has been seen for decades as the most inclusive in England has been accused of delivering a “segregated insult” to disabled people, after backing plans for a new special school for autistic pupils in the borough. The […]
The disabled people’s organisation leading the fight for inclusive education in the UK is building a new coalition of allies and supporters to end segregation and push for mainstream education for all disabled people. The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) is […]
The special educational needs and disability (SEND) system is “creaking and ripe for long-promised reform”, according to the annual report of the education watchdog Ofsted. Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector of education, children’s services and skills, warned in her annual report […]
The government appears to have admitted that David Cameron’s 2010 pledge to “end the bias” towards including disabled children in mainstream schools was a huge mistake and now needs to be reversed. The apparent admission comes in this week’s long-awaited special […]
A disabled student has won the right to challenge efforts by ministers to prevent him and thousands of others in his situation from claiming universal credit while they are studying. Flinn Kays argues that many disabled students should be entitled to […]
Three disabled people’s organisations have asked the education secretary why he is refusing to scrap controversial measures that handed him the power to restrict disabled children’s right to education. Ministers insist that the powers, which were introduced a year ago through […]
A disabled law student has spoken of the “sheer hell” he has been put through by the repeated and prolonged discriminatory actions of his university over the last five years. So far, an ombudsman has upheld nine separate complaints made by […]