FYI
Colin
Sorry that was a very negative response - I apologise - yes Dad does deserve a medal! I am still reeling from Kent's Headteacher conference yesterday where I led a walkout when our Tory politicians showed the most horrendous piece of propaganda which publicly slagged off and actually lied about a Headteacher who had been working in one of the most deprived schools in Britain - and the school had been 'turned around' due to the 'wonderful intervention' of some tory stooges - who had been given HUGE amounts of money! Unbelievable... it reminded me how very wicked the Tories are.
They must not win this election (... and that woman was a bigot!)
Nigel Utton
Headteacher
Bromstone Primary School
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2PW
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Chair of Heading for Inclusion
The Alliance for Inclusive Education
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Sent: 29 April 2010 08:51
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Subject: Re: David Cameron on SEN - Sky coverage today!
I wanted to give Dad a clap and 'him' a slap! (OK, 2 slaps)
Julia Hayes
Educational Psychologist
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On 29/04/2010 08:49, "Headteacher" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
... and you believe him! For shame!
Nigel Utton
Headteacher
Bromstone Primary School
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2PW
01843 867010
Chair of Heading for Inclusion
The Alliance for Inclusive Education
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
020 7737 6030
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www.allfie.org.uk <http://www.allfie.org.uk>
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From: Tara Flood [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 April 2010 18:16
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Subject: FW: David Cameron on SEN - Sky coverage today!
Something to warm your inclusion cockles!!
Tara
Dear Friends
Jonathan Bartley, confronted the Conservative leader with his son Samuel as he left an event in South London. Mr Bartley voiced his concern about Tory plans to "end the bias towards the inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream schools".
Please see video link below to watch the full interview.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/David-Cameron-Is-Confronted-By-A-Parent-Who-Struggled-To-Get-Child-Into-Mainstream-School/Article/201004415620837?lpos=Politics_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15620837_David_Cameron_Is_Confronted_By_A_Parent_Who_Struggled_To_Get_Child_Into_Mainstream_School <http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/David-Cameron-Is-Confronted-By-A-Parent-Who-Struggled-To-Get-Child-Into-Mainstream-School/Article/201004415620837?lpos=Politics_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15620837_David_Cameron_Is_Confronted_By_A_Parent_Who_Struggled_To_Get_Child_Into_Mainstream_School>
Mr Bartley told Mr Cameron about the two-year struggle he had faced to get seven-year-old Samuel into his local mainstream school, and said the existing system was already biased against disabled children being educated alongside their able-bodied peers.
Mr Cameron insisted that, as the parent of a disabled child himself, he was "passionate" about helping them get the education that was right for them and would not do anything to make it more difficult for them. But Mr Bartley said: "It is the wrong way to go. You are not representing the needs of children in mainstream education. You want to segregate disabled children.
"You are saying you want to reverse the bias towards the inclusion of children in mainstream schools. At the moment there is a bias against inclusion, not a bias for it, as your manifesto says. You talk about the broken society. It nearly broke up our family getting our son into school."
"His two sisters go there, it's our local school, we have had to struggle for two years and in the end the Secretary of State had to intervene. There is a bias against inclusion and you are saying there's a bias for it."
Mr Cameron - whose disabled son Ivan died last year - said: "I absolutely promise you that I would never do anything to make it more difficult for children to go to a mainstream school.
"At the moment, people don't get what they want. You didn't get what you wanted, I didn't get what I wanted. We both had to fight. We are going to make it easier by making sure that statements (of special needs) are not provided by local education authorities, they are provided by someone separate".
Please send far and wide.
Thank you
The Team from the Alliance for Inclusive Education
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