Tara Flood, Director of the Alliance for Inclusive Education and a Trustee of CSIE, has recently been named as the winner of the Social Inclusion Campaign Award from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, in recognition of all her work towards the Alliance’s “We Know Inclusion Works” campaign. The Campaign was launched in July 2006, following months of negative media reports on the so-called ‘damaging’ effects of inclusive education. To help put the record straight, the Campaign invited disabled children and young people, their parents and staff in their mainstream schools to send in their positive experiences of inclusion. In October 2006 disabled young people and their allies marched to the Department for Education and Skills and personally delivered to Lord Adonis, then the Minister responsible for ‘SEN and Disability’, a staggering four volumes of positive personal stories of inclusion, expressed in words and/or pictures. The Campaign remains open and the Alliance continues to invite stories of positive experiences of including disabled pupils in mainstream schools (PDF). For more information on the “We Know Inclusion Works” campaign please see www.allfie.org.uk. For more information on Tara Flood please see her Guardian interview.