Preethi Manuel, fighting for a mainstream school place for her daughter Zahrah who has cerebral palsy, has finally won her battle. Ms. Manuel staged a televised sit-in at the Council’s Crowndale Centre with disabled campaigners as a final protest in her five-year struggle. At the meeting with Camden Council a verbal agreement was reached on her demands. These were that eight-year-old Zahrah be put on the school roll at Beckford primary, a date is set when she will become a full-time pupil, her two-day a week placement is gradually phased into five days, and until then, Camden Council funds her £120 a week home-tuition.
Camden and St. Pancras Chronicle, July 6, 1995.

A parents’ group is set to take Dudley Council to court because it claims the authority is breaking the law by failing to educate special needs children in mainstream schools. The Dudley and Sandwell branch of Network ’81 believes that the Council is pursuing an outdated and illegal policy of not letting special needs children into ordinary schools. Dudley Council denies it is breaking the law but says it believes that children with moderate to severe learning difficulties are best educated in special schools.
Birmingham Post, July 22, 1995

Russia has announced a new national policy for children with special needs. The Government wants disabled children to be integrated into mainstream schools rather than isolated in residential institutions. Dr. Alexander Asmolov, deputy federal education minister, said the change in policy heralded “a new era of dignity”.
Disability Now, July 1995.

Commenting in a letter to her local paper on the decision to exclude her daughter from Hornsea Girls School, Midge Caryer says that like most schools in Haringey, Hornsea school does not offer equal opportunities. “I invite all Haringey mainstream schools to publicly abandon their equal opportunities policies or add a rider to the effect that students with disabilities are excluded.This would be truthful”.
Hornsey Journal, July 20 1995.

Parents of ten-year-old Sebastian Clarke, who has cerebral palsy, have removed him from his Birmingham School alleging cruel taunts and bullying from his classmates because of his disability. The school says that the allegations do not reflect the true facts which are that the school has made full provision for Sebastian comparable to any other mainstream school.
Birmingham Post, July 21, 1995.

Jack and Barbara Dundon say they are appealing against Nottinghamshire County Council’s decision to send their grandson, Sean Farrow, 11, to Bramcote Park School, a mainstream school where visually impaired children are integrated with support. They say Sean, who lives with his grandparents because he prefers their quieter surroundings, could not cope in mainstream and will get better opportunities in a special school. A County Council spokesman said Bramcote Park’s individual needs unit was one of the most innovative and successful of its kind in the country. And the head of the boarding school for visually disabled children which Sean has been attending said the school would not integrate a pupil if they were worried about it.
Evening Post, Nottingham July 27, 1995.