Inclusive education campaigners have called for a “complete shift in thinking” on how disabled children and young people are educated, just as the government faces public uproar over reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. There were widespread […]
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SEND inspections find services in just one in four areas usually lead to ‘positive’ outcomes for disabled children
Disabled people’s organisations consider halting engagement with disability minister over ‘brutal cuts’
Online provider charges disabled students thousands more for same qualification in ‘blatant discrimination’
SEN improvements ‘could see tens of thousands more disabled children educated in mainstream schools’
Ofsted’s plans to reform inspections ‘will continue to enable discrimination’
Disabled activists pledge ‘no hiding place’ for Labour’s new government
Anger over government’s ‘gleeful’ announcement of yet more special schools
The government’s policy of opening more and more special schools is stripping funding from mainstream settings and handing it to profit-making bodies, disabled campaigners have warned. They said the government was allowing these organisations to make “huge profits” through the “institutionalisation […]