Dear <<First Name>> welcome to our August newsletter!
Our bi-monthly newsletter highlights campaigns, projects and other news:
- Campaigns - COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, Inclusion Now
- Projects - Inclusion Champion, Making Things Happen
- ALLFIE News - 30th Birthday, Working Arrangements
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COVID-19
We remain very busy keeping up with new areas of work around our COVID-19 campaign: exposing flaws in our education policies and legal frameworks and monitoring the impact of remote learning on disabled pupils and students. Our research has uncovered issues for families and disabled students with remote learning alongside SEND provision. Many disabled pupils and students have had no education for four months because they’re unable to access remote learning opportunities or necessary alternative curriculum activities. ALLFIE is surprised by the lack of awareness education institutions have about the regulatory framework governing website accessibility standards.
The Human Rights and Equality Network have commissioned us to write a case study about disabled pupils’ and students’ experiences of remote education in an equalities and human rights framework, which we'll publish on the website.
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ALLFIE’s COVID-19 Education Survey
The evidence you helped us collect in our survey is informing our ongoing work during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have written submissions to three Parliamentary inquiries:
- The Education Select Committee’s “The impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services”
- The Women and Equalities Committee’s “Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services”
- Joint Committee on Human Right’s “The Government’s response to COVID-19: human rights implications”
Our submissions will be made available on the website after the Parliamentary Committees have published them on theirs. We will also publish our own report and invite our friends and colleagues to join us for a webinar discussion.
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Black Lives Matter
As part of our intersectional work ALLFIE is supporting the Black Lives Movement. We have set up a Disabled Black Lives Matter pressure group to address racial and intersectional inequalities and uploaded a statement and series of videos on to our website.
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Inclusion Now Magazine
The summer edition of Inclusion Now magazine is packed with topical articles, debates and resources, including: COVID-19 and Inclusive Education; Brimsdown School visit, a parent’s journey to inclusion, plus much more
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Disabled Students UK
Disabled Students UK is a national unconstituted group run by disabled students. We are supporting their campaign work and have begun to provide them ad hoc capacity support including Equality Act and human rights advice.
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Inclusion Champions
We are in the process of meeting professionals working with families of disabled children and young people, laying foundations to support more joint work with Disabled Peoples Organisations and service providers for disabled young people. Inclusion Champion Network will host webinars with speakers and topics supporting DPO's work with young people or capacity building.
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Making Things Happen
We are excited to announce our ‘Make Things Happen’ Project funded by #iWill. ALLFIE is running five interactive online summer creative workshops in August for disabled young people aged 16-25 in Lambeth, London, to explore information sharing and building confidence, knowledge and skills including:
- understanding your rights and skills around speaking up
- decision-making
- ‘disability’ identity
- understanding the social model of disability
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It's our 30th birthday!
This year is ALLFIE’s 30th birthday and we want you to join us to celebrate in October and November, to help make some noise and celebrate inclusive education! Please look out for upcoming announcements and details.
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ALLFIE working arrangements
To ensure we continue to play our role in helping to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and to protect our staff, visitors and the public, our office remains closed. All staff continue to work from home. We have moved all face-to-face meetings and events to virtual platforms and continue to address how to make our new way of working accessible and interactive for the foreseeable future.
We'll announce when the office is reopening and our secure arrangements.
You can continue to reach us via: e-mail, twitter, vour website, or leave a voice message for a staff member to return your call: 020 7737 6030
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Memberships and donations
Thank you for your support during challenging times!
We especially appreciate your donations which keep our campaign alive so inclusive education is a right not a struggle.
Working together we can make inclusion a reality!
Support Our Work
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