Legal Question - ALLFIE The legal question was posed by David Buxton, Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK, and answered by Polly Kerr from Simpson Millar Solicitors.

Legal Question
"If parents can be fined for breaching attendance rules, why can’t we be compensated when statutory failings cause real financial loss, emotional distress, and disruption to education?”
Simpson Millar Solicitors responds: www.allfie.org.uk/resources/in...
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Systematic barriers force young Disabled people out of education, employment and training - ALLFIE Edmore Masendeke, ALLFIE’s Policy and Research Lead, warns that systemic barriers in education, training, and employment push many Disabled young people out of opportunity, reinforcing inequality.…

Systematic barriers force young Disabled people out of education, employment and training

Edmore Masendeke discusses how systemic barriers reinforce inequality and how Inclusive Education is the first step to social change.

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The Emotional and Mental Health Impact of Segregated Education - ALLFIE Maresa MacKeith, and Derek Wilson and Colin Newton from Inclusive Solutions explore how segregation signals to some young people they don’t belong, and why true inclusion helps all children flourish,…

The Emotional and Mental Health Impact of Segregated Education

Maresa MacKeith, Derek Wilson and Colin Newton explore how truly Inclusive Education is the foundation for Disabled people to flourish, participate and connect

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Transport across a lifetime: SEND transport and Motability need to be protected - ALLFIE Every young person deserves the freedom to go further! Sophia Kleanthous from Transport for All highlights inaccessible public transport, cuts to SEND transport, and how Motability changes make…

Transport across a lifetime: SEND transport and Motability need to be protected

Sophia Kleanthous highlights how inaccessibilty in transport and the cuts to SEND transport make journeys harder and limit opportunities for Disabled people

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SEN Units, Resource Provisions and Inclusion Bases  - ALLFIE Matthew Wyard, Barrister, and ALLFIE’s Michelle Daley and Edmore Masendeke, Alliance for Inclusive Education ask: Is there a difference between SEN Units and Specialist Resource Provision? Are they…

SEN Units, Resource Provisions and Inclusion Bases

Matthew Wyard (Barrister @39essexchambers.bsky.social) and ALLFIE’s Michelle Daley and Edmore Masendeke discuss everything you need to know about SEN Units and how they interact with the Equality Act 2011.

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Enough is Enough! The time has come to recognise that segregation is wrong - ALLFIE By Linda Jordan, Senior Development Adviser at National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi)

Enough is Enough! The time has come to recognise that segregation is wrong

Linda Jordan (from @ndtihello.bsky.social) reflects on successful integration and how society can move purposefully towards Inclusive Education for all

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Separate is Never Equal

Do SEN Units limit schools capacity for inclusion? Ruth Walton discusses her own challenges finding inclusive education for her son

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Scandalous Profiteering Wasting Millions of Public Money - A Crippen cartoon

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SEND Financial Time Bomb taken on Board by Government

As financial responsibility for SEND provision deficits moves from Local Authorities to Central Government, Richard Reiser breaks down the figures. Rising costs risk widening inequality

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Editorial

Edmore Masendeke highlights the key messages within the Spring 2026 articles and reflects on them in light of the proposed SEND reforms

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Inclusion Now Magazine 74 is available in accessible formats such as text and audio, through our website: www.allfie.org.uk/resources/in...

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Inclusion Now 74 Spring 2026 Inclusion Now 74 (Spring 2026): essential coverage on inclusive education, disability, accessible transport, SEN units and the emotional impact of segregation. The 74th edition of Inclusion Now from

📰 Edition 74 of #InclusionNow magazine is out NOW!

Inclusive education news including:
SEND financial time bomb
SEN units
Accessible transport
The emotional impact of segregation
& more

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Join us in Manchester or online for our regional Movement Launch– April 30th #EducateDontSegregate Demand Inclusive Education - Click the link in our bio to register your place! What you can expect: - ALLFIE Our Voice Young Activists - Disabled people challenging the proposed political…

Disabled people are mobilising to challenge proposed government SEND reforms.

Everyone’s voice matters so make yours heard 📢

- Thurs 30 April | 11:30am–6pm
- Manchester + online
- Book tinyurl.com/yckf2km9

Join us to demand Inclusive Education #EducateDontSegregate

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Legal SEND Reform Consultation | 21st April 2026 #EducateDontSegregate #InclusiveEducation Are you a lawyer, legal advocate, or professional working with EHCPs, tribunals, or education law? Join our online consultation event on 21st April 2026 from 11am to 12:30pm to help shape the future…

Are you a lawyer, legal advocate, or professional working with EHCPs, tribunals, or education law?

Help shape our SEND Reform response by sharing your insights📣

April 21st @ 11am
Online|BSL Interpreters
Book:https://tinyurl.com/3rhfczpt
#EducateDontSegregate
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Do you work in education? We want to hear your views and experiences in response to the Schools White Paper on SEND.

Join our Professionals SEND reform consultation:
7th April 2026 @ 5.30pm - 7pm
Online | BSL Interpreters
Book:https://tinyurl.com/296jvypu

#EducateDontSegregate

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SEND Reform Consultation – Professionals. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SEND Reform Consultation – Professionals. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

If you work in education, we want to hear your views, concerns, and experiences in response to the Schools White Paper on SEND.

7th April 2026 @ 5.30pm - 7pm
Online | BSL Interpreters
Book:https://tinyurl.com/296jvypu

#EducateDontSegregate
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Join ALLFIE's launch of a regional Movement for Inclusive Education, in collaboration with @gmcdp.bsky.social, on 30th April 2026📣

Disabled people organising for justice, liberation & systemic change.

Join us online or in person in Manchester: eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-incl...
#EducateDontSegregate

SEND Reform Consultation 2026: the Alliance for Inclusive Education. Two young Disabled people are holding a protest banner with the slogan: Educate, Don't Segregate

SEND Reform: Education Professionals 🎓️

Teachers, TAs, SENCOs, Headteachers, and others - join this vital conversation to influence the Government’s SEND Reform consultation

When: 7th April, 5.30 - 7pm
Where: Zoom
Access: BSL
Book: tinyurl.com/shtwuyvy

#EducateDontSegregate #InclusiveEducation

Educate, Don’t Segregate. Build Inclusion. Join the launch of a regional Movement for Inclusive Education. Includes: ‘Our Voice’ young activists; Disabled people challenging the proposed political Schools White Paper and SEND reforms; Contributions from movement leaders; Collective organising & discussion. AFTER THE MAIN EVENT (6pm – 7pm): Free food, Poetry, Creative resistance, Community building. WHERE AND WHEN: Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11:30am – 6pm, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester M1 5BY. In-person & online. Join us. Organise. Mobilise. Demand Inclusive Education – NOW! Access: BSL Interpreter, Palantypist.

Build Inclusion #EducateDontSegregate

In collaboration with Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, we're hosting a launch event to mobilise a powerful regional movement for #InclusiveEducation.

Join us in person or online: 30th April 2026 📣

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-incl...

SEND Reform Consultation 2026: the Alliance for Inclusive Education. Two young Disabled people are holding a protest banner with the slogan: Educate, Don't Segregate

ALLFIE is calling for urgent action to end disablism, ableism, and intersectional discrimination across education policy and practice.

Join our intersectional consultation on proposed government SEND reforms:
- March 31st
- 5:30 to 7pm
- On Zoom

Book: tinyurl.com/bddrftdh

#EducateDontSegregate

Parents SEND Reform Consultation | 24th March 2026 #InclusiveEducation #EducateDontSegregate Join our Parents event around the government SEND reform consultation on March 24th 2026, 11 am to 12:30 pm. We want to hear from parents who are passionate about inclusion rather than segregation,…

Invitation: Have Your Say on SEND Reform 🎓

We're asking parents and families of Disabled children to help shape our SEND Reform consultation response.

When: March 24th @ 11am
Where: Zoom
Access: BSL Interpreters
Book: tinyurl.com/aka432ew

#EducateDontSegregate
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Young People SEND Reform Consultation | 24th March 2026 #InclusiveEducation #EducateDontSegregate Are you a young Disabled person, aged 16 - 30, living in England or Wales? If yes, we want to hear from you! Join our Young People's event around the government SEND reform consultation on March 24th…

Are you a young Disabled person, aged 16 - 30, living in England or Wales?

Join our event to help build an education system where everyone belongs 📣

March 24th @ 6pm - 7.30pm
Online | BSL Interpreters
Book: tinyurl.com/mwywtbpz

#EducateDontSegregate
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Don't miss your chance to improve the future of Inclusive Education. Your voice and experience matter.

Help Shape the Response to SEND Reform and join one of our consultation sessions -
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#EducateDontSegregate

SEND Reform Consultation 2026: the Alliance for Inclusive Education. Two young Disabled people are holding a protest banner with the slogan: Educate, Don't Segregate

Have your say on SEND Reform 🎓️

Disabled children and young people have the right to Inclusive Education. Now is the time to make sure their voices, and yours, are heard!

Join our online events to shape our collective response to the UK Government: mailchi.mp/allfie/send-...

#EducateDontSegregate

Young People SEND Reform Consultation | 24th March 2026 #InclusiveEducation #EducateDontSegregate Are you a young Disabled person, aged 16 - 30, living in England or Wales? If yes, we want to hear from you! Join our Young People's event around the government SEND reform consultation on March 24th…

Are you a young Disabled person, aged 16 - 30, living in England or Wales?

Join our event to help build an education system where everyone belongs 📣

March 24th @ 6pm - 7.30pm
Online | BSL Interpreters
Book: tinyurl.com/mwywtbpz

#EducateDontSegregate
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Parents SEND Reform Consultation | 24th March 2026 #InclusiveEducation #EducateDontSegregate Join our Parents event around the government SEND reform consultation on March 24th 2026, 11 am to 12:30 pm. We want to hear from parents who are passionate about inclusion rather than segregation,…

Invitation: Have Your Say on SEND Reform 🎓

We're asking parents and families of Disabled children to help shape our SEND Reform consultation response.

When: March 24th @ 11am
Where: Zoom
Access: BSL Interpreters
Book: tinyurl.com/aka432ew

#EducateDontSegregate
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Government’s ‘generational’ SEND reforms will leave more children in segregated settings The government’s “generational” reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will increase the proportion of children in “specialist” placements over the next nine years,…

ALLFIE said the government’s plans would continue to “reinforce segregation” of disabled children and young people by rebranding SEN units in mainstream schools as “inclusion bases” and describing this as “progress”
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SEND reforms ‘are a missed opportunity’ to dismantle the barriers driving disabled pupils from mainstream The government’s long-awaited reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system are a missed opportunity to dismantle the barriers that continue to drive disabled young people…

ALLFIE called for the government to phase out segregated education, take action to end disablism and discrimination within the education system, and end the use of force, restraint and seclusion units in education settings.
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@johnpring.bsky.social #EducateDontSegregate

Government’s ‘generational’ SEND reforms will leave more children in segregated settings The government’s “generational” reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system will increase the proportion of children in “specialist” placements over the next nine years,…

Government’s ‘generational’ SEND reforms will leave more children in segregated settings
#SENDreform @allfieuk.bsky.social #InclusiveEducation #SEND
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SEND reforms ‘are a missed opportunity’ to dismantle the barriers driving disabled pupils from mainstream The government’s long-awaited reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system are a missed opportunity to dismantle the barriers that continue to drive disabled young people…

SEND reforms ‘are a missed opportunity’ to dismantle the barriers driving disabled pupils from mainstream
#SENDreforms #SEND #InclusiveEducation
@allfieuk.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/send-reforms...