Mrs. Beverley Doyle decides to keep her daughter Ashlee out of school after Solihull Council say she must leave a unit for children with moderate learning difficulties at Hatchford Grant Primary School and go to a special school. Mrs. Doyle says she can’t understand how a unit which is designed especially for children with difficulties can fail her daughter. She adds: “Ashlee is being denied her rights of being able to mix with mainstream children”.
Birmingham Evening Mail, February 4, 1995.

The Chair of Education, Lewisham Council, Coun. Gavin Moore, quotes the Government’s new Special Needs Code of Practice to defend the Council’s decision to send Chloe McCollom to a special school against her parents’ wishes. He says the Code states that local education authorities must comply with a parental preference unless the school is unsuitable to the child’s age, aptitude or special needs or the placement would be incompatible with the efficient education of other children or with the efficient use of resources.
Deptford and Peckham Mercury, February 9, 1995.

A Private Member’s Bill to remove the possibility of disabled children being compelled to attend a special school against their parents’ wishes receives its Second Reading in the Commons. The Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill introduced by Harry Barnes MP aims to remove conditions on disabled children’s entry into mainstream schools specified in the 1993 Education Act.
Education, February 10, 1995.