Dear all,
my heart bleeds for the impact this uk government's insensitivity towards disabled people will have not only on the uk, but even in those other countries in the global south where the uk, rightly or wrongly, has generally been considered as a model to follow. This will inevitably have a ripple effect beyond the shores of the uk. I wish people like me in the global south could join hands with our colleagues in the uk and support the planned demonstration on the 29th or whatever new date, maybe just submitting written statements of support for the rights of disabled children to have inclusive education. It's just a thought. Better suggestions are indeed welcome. I for one will certainly participate in my own small way here in zimbabwe because i see these measures as potentially having a terrible universal effect.
Rise up fellow disabled colleagues and allies of the uk.
Kudzai
On Fri Jun 3rd, 2011 3:07 AM PDT Dan Goodley wrote:
>Colin
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>thanks for forwarding this
>Do we need to set up a facebook group to support it?
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>Some of the public sector unions, including those in education, will be on strike or organising demos/rallies etc in support of other unions strikes on 30 June. A lot of community based organisations may also be supporting this. Therefore I wonder how feasible it will be to have a massive demo on 29.
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>On 03/06/2011 10:43, Colin Barnes wrote:
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>FYI
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>Colin
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>CALLING ALL DISABLED PEOPLE AND ALLIES
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>David Cameron has acted on his threat to “Reverse the bias towards inclusion” for disabled children and other children who need extra help at school. The Governments green paper ‘Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability” is based entirely on the medical model of disability and will push back all the progress for which disabled people have struggled over the last 20 years. These proposals include:
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> * Creating many more special school places
> * Removing the right of children to a legally enforceable ‘Statement of Special Educational Needs’
> * Re-introducing the infamous caveats in the law which allow local authorities to forcibly segregate disabled children
> * Allow many more schools to opt out of local authority control (and centralised services which support inclusion)
> * Put parents in control of their children’s financial resources until they are 25 years old
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>This is in the context of a massive cut back in the rights and resources being made available to disabled people and all the poor and disadvantaged families who constitute the group most vulnerable to these proposals, including changes to Housing Benefit, Income Support, DLA, Personal Budgets, rights to legal aid, Sure Start Schemes, Youth Work and so on.
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>WE MUST FIGHT BACK
>PLEASE COME TO THE EVENT ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 29th, AND DEMONSTRATE OUR RESISTANCE TO THESE PROPOSALS
>Meet at 11AM, on WESTMINSTER BRIDGE in front of St Thomas’s Hospital.
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>Disabled people and our allies are organising the ‘Reverse the bias Towards Segregation Campaign’ and we need as much help as we can get otherwise yet another generation of disabled children will have their life chances severely compromised and young people in general will have their stated wish to be educated in inclusive schools where they can learn about real people be denied. June the 29th is the last day of the public consultation of these proposals made in the green paper.
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