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Disabled children miss out on basic items as poverty trap snares parents
- Author:
- GILLEN Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.08.02, 2002, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Parents of disabled children are struggling to pay for basic items such as bedding, according to a report published by children's charity Barnardo's.
Public order issues at the heart of community cohesion plans
- Author:
- GILLEN Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.12.02, 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Recent guidance to promote community cohesion 'Community Cohesion: Building Communities Based on Trust and Respect', emphasises race relations and ignores many other groups such as disabled people and older people.
Some will be more equal that others in proposed anti-discrimination body
- Author:
- GILLEN Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.3.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the plans to have a single body to replace existing commissions and tackle age, disability, religious and anti-gay discrimination, and the concerns this has raised.
Can mainstream schools cope with children who have special needs?
- Author:
- GILLEN Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.12.02, 2002, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the Audit Commission's claim that children with special educational needs and disabilities are being let down by school league tables and a lack of training. For those who had long campaigned for greater inclusion of children with special needs and disabilities in mainstream education, the legislation which took effect from September to eliminate discrimination on those grounds was long overdue. Three months on, it is too early to judge what impact the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 has had, but a report by the Audit Commission suggests that many mainstream schools are ill-prepared for an increase in students with SEN or a disability. Although over two-thirds of children with special educational needs attend mainstream schools, the report says that many of them face barriers within them and are often excluded from certain lessons and social activities.