The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) is a national campaigning and information-sharing network led by disabled people. ALLFIE campaigns for all disabled people to have the human and civil right to access to and be supported in mainstream education. We are putting a call for:
- Disabled students experiences of higher education and the disabled students allowance – Government’s consultation on the DSA reforms
- Evidence on how effective Equality Act is for promoting inclusive education practices in schools, colleges and universities – Call for Evidence for House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the Equality Act 2010
Government’s consultation on the DSA reforms
The date for the DSA reforms consultation is taking place over the summer break. So we have to act quickly. We are keen to ask Disabled Peoples Organisations to make contact with Disabled students who are willing to share their experiences for ALLFIE’s response to the Government’s consultation on their Disabled Students Allowance reforms.
We are also interested in speaking disabled students who are thinking about going to university from September 2016.
We just want to have a chat with you initially either on the phone, face-to-face or via email.
We would be interested in hearing from you by 17th August if possible.
Call for Evidence for House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry into the Equality Act 2010
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 has called for evidence regarding the implementation of Equality Act 2010, particularly in relation to how the Act serves disabled people.
This is our opportunity to tell the Committee about how Equality Act and SEN legal provisions are working for disabled students wanting to be included in mainstream education. This is particularly important, as Government’s own figures have shown a steady decline, over the last 4 years, of disabled children and young people on the roll of mainstream schools.
ALLFIE wants to hear from disabled children and young people, including those with SEN, their families and disabled students about how the law is working for them. Also whether you have been able to access the law and if you have what that experience was like. We want to hear from you whatever your experience is, positive or negative!
We have included SEN because many children with SEN fall under the Equality Act’s definition of disability. We are keen to hear from you about how SEN and Equality Act law affects disabled learners rights to access mainstream education.
ALLFIE will be submitting evidence to the House of Lords Equality Act Inquiry during September 2015.
Please contact us if you have a story we can include into our response by 10th August 2015.
If you want more information please contact Simone Aspis, ALLFIE’s Campaigns & Policy Co-ordinator simone.aspis@allfie.org.uk ALLFIE tel number 0207 737 6030
In 2002, two weeks into my PhD, I was assaulted by 7 men. It left me with PTSD and trauma induced psychosis – though obviously I didn’t know it at the time. I was forced to dregister in 2005, taking all my research with me and completing it at home, writing up 3 papers all on my own.
I have been appealing to the University of Bath for nearly a decade, my appeals falling upon deaf ears.
Now I have gone it alone and had a first publication just last Friday (29/7/2015) and it looks good for the other two too. But at the moment, I cannot graduate. Pisser.
Hi Bob ,
Have posted this up on my Twitter page Methusalada73. I am now using Windows10 which I find very good. Awaiting a call from Simone.