ALLFIE is concerned that the right to mainstream education is being eroded.
Around 30 protestors from the alliance gathered at the DfE building in London last week to demand a meeting with minister to coincide with International Human Rights Day and the final report stage of the bill in the House of Lords.
Members of the alliance dressed as ghosts as part of their ‘ghosts of segregation past and future’ campaign and blocked the entrance to the building for the second time since the drafting of the bill.
ALLFIE is calling on the Government to include a commitment to ensure an inclusive education system for people with disabilities, as required by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the ‘general principles’ clause.
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