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Education

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)

Education

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

Education

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

Education

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

Politics

April 12, 2018 0

Network neglect leaves government ‘closer to coercion than co-production’

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The government’s reputation on disability equality has suffered a further damaging blow, after it admitted that none of the bodies it set up to engage with disabled people and their organisations as part of its disability strategy has met in nearly a year. The Fulfilling Potential Forum, set up “to discuss how disabled people

Politics

Philip Hammond speaking in the House of Commons

March 15, 2018 0

Spring statement ‘shows disabled people will continue to bear brunt of austerity’

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The chancellor’s spring statement shows that disabled people will continue to bear the brunt of austerity, according to leading user-led organisations. They spoke out after Philip Hammond (pictured) resisted calls to increase funding for adult social care and other public services in this week’s statement. Instead, he suggested that he might increase public spending

Independent Living

The outside of a redbrick office building

January 18, 2018 0

DRILL funding paves the way for personal budget co-operatives

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Five user-led organisations have secured £150,000 for a research project that will set up what it is believed will be the UK’s first cooperatives for disabled people who receive care funding through personal budgets. The project, led by Cheshire Centre for Independent Living, aims to work with disabled people who receive personal care or

Education

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

Education

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

Activism and Campaigning

December 7, 2017 0

London’s mayor broke election promise to meet disabled people’s organisations

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The mayor of London has refused to explain why he failed to keep his promise to meet representatives of the capital’s disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in his first 100 days in office. Labour’s Sadiq Khan made the pledge to three London disabled people’s organisations – Inclusion London, Transport for All and The Alliance for

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