Press releases

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Goodbye and good luck to Tara Flood, ALLFIE’s CEO

Our trustees pay tribute to Tara’s work and look to the future.

11th March 2019

Press Release: Response to Government Announcement of 39 New Special Schools

The Alliance for Inclusive Education condemns the government’s mass expansion of segregated education, including the establishment of 39 new special academy schools and 2 alternative education schools whilst cutting mainstream school budgets.

Press Release 11th March 2019

Press Release: High Court Case

The Alliance For Inclusive Education supports a human rights legal challenge around the provision of support for Disabled pupils with visual impairments within mainstream schooling.

Press Release 21/01/2019.

Press Release: OFSTED Annual Report for 2017/18

ALLFIE shares Ofsted’s concerns that Disabled pupils and students are being forced out of mainstream education but believes the inspection framework itself is part of the problem.

Press release 07/12/2019.

ALLFIE response to government announcements for Disabled pupils and Christine Lenehan’s “Good Intentions, Good Enough?” report on residential special schools

Press release 21/08/2018

Alliance for Inclusive Education condemns government plans to bring back selective education

Press release 14/05/2018

Education Select Committee SEN inquiry ignores Disabled pupils’ fundamental human and civil rights to mainstream education

Press release 26/04/2018

Alliance for Inclusive Education statement on the budget cuts to SEND provision

Press release 22/03/2018

Funding for new research into school accessibility plans

Press release 18/01/2018

New UN condemnation for UK human rights record

Press release 31/08/2017

Allfie highlights UK’s appalling disability rights record to the UN

Press release 21/08/2018

10% decline of Disabled pupils with SEN attending mainstream schools

General Election press release 5/06/2017

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ALLFIE’s campaign for Inclusive Education as a human right is backed by funders and donors who reject the systemic segregation of Disabled people from society.