Inclusive education

Disabled children could be removed from mainstream schools and educated in segregated establishments for children with special needs under a Tory government.

The Conservatives have started a review of "inclusive" education, which encourages the teaching of disabled pupils alongside their able-bodied peers, in a move that will prove controversial among disability groups, which have campaigned for years for the right to access mainstream schools.

Stakeholder Response: National Association of Schoolmaster and Union of Women Teachers

Chris Keates, acting general secretary of NASUWT, said: "NASUWT argues that a truly inclusive education service provides a range of services to meet the variety of individual needs.

 

"Inclusion needs to be redefined to inclusion in education and not admission to a particular school.