Inclusive Choice Consultancy

More than one in twenty school children are disabled. Parent Partnerships need to be fully aware of the issues facing parents of disabled children to be able to help parents fight for their rights. A reasonable knowledge of education law regarding disabled pupils will help you provide the best support for these parents.

Course codes:

IPIS-PP0 (½ day)
IPIS-PP1 (1 day)
IPIS-PP2 (2 days)

Every year over 500 schools get taken to SEN and disability tribunals. 65% of these tribunals find in favour of the parents. Parents can obtain help from a variety of sources if they are in dispute with their child's school, or the local authority. A knowledge of what help is available, and the legal processes regarding disputes and claims in education, is important to support parents of disabled children in this unfortunate situation.

Our course, "Inclusive Practice In Schools - Parent Partnerships" will give parent partnership staff all the information they need to help parents of disabled children enforce their rights to a good education for their children.

Previous parent partnership course trainees' said...

"In the ten years with Parent Partnership, this was the most useful training I've ever had, and delivered in a dynamic and very interesting way. Thank you Geraldine"
- Liverpool Parent Partnership

"I enjoyed the session very much. It reinforced the work of parent partnership services and has encouraged me to continue to raise the profile of parent participation and involvement."
- Leeds Parent Partnership

"Very interesting and practical. Geraldine shared personal experience that helped and was very down to earth - thankyou."
- Horsforth Children's Centre

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The course contents include:

• Jargon explained
• The DDA explained
• Definition of disability
• Hidden impairments
• What is and what isn't a disability?
• Disability discrimination duties
• Less Favourable Treatment
• Justification for Less Favourable Treatment
• School admissions
• Blanket and differentiated policies
• Exclusions
• Reasonable adjustments
• Exceptions to reasonable adjustments
• Information sharing
• Lack of knowledge defences
• The SENDIST tribunal process
• Avoiding discrimination
• What we can do for parents
• Common misconceptions
• Common issues
• The Codes Of Practice

The course includes several videos showing inclusive practice in action, and many interesting worked examples and case studies.