Daily Archives: 30/09/2011

Inclusion fears over SEN pilot projects

Campaigners will try to convince local authorities testing out new government policies on special educational needs (SEN) to take an inclusive approach, despite the coalition’s “hostile” stance on including disabled children in mainstream schools.
Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat children’s minister, this week announced 20 “pathfinder” schemes across England that will test out proposals in the [...]

Figures raise fresh concerns over work of Atos

New research by disabled activists has produced fresh evidence of poor performance by the company paid to test disabled people’s “fitness for work”.
The results come from an online survey form hosted by the campaigning website AfterAtos, and cover responses from the last six months.
Although the results are not based on a random sample of disabled [...]