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CSIE works towards raising awareness about all aspects of equality in education and towards increasing schools’ capacity to provide for the full diversity of learners. Our work is driven by a commitment to overcome barriers to learning and participation for all children and young people. In addition to activities listed below, CSIE is a member of the Special Educational Consortium and some of our work on lobbying and campaigning for disability equality in education happens through the collective voice of SEC.

Key activities include:

CSIE produces and distributes a wide range of resources for a diverse audience. Browse through these pages for more information on a variety of materials including books and other publications to inform and support inclusive school development, audio tapes featuring examples of inclusion in action, information on current law and practice, discussion papers, posters, postcards and more.

A number of our resources have been translated and are available in many countries worldwide. We welcome new translation proposals but stress that the first step must always be to ask us if the translation rights are available.

CSIE is committed to undertaking and disseminating research which informs the understanding of children’s, young people’s and adults’ experiences of education and sheds light on the impact of these experiences on people’s lives.

The Centre’s research practices are entirely consistent with ethical guidance issued by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). CSIE shares contemporary understandings of the place of values in research, which acknowledge that no researcher can occupy a value-free position, and is confident to keep its philosophical standpoint explicit. The quality of our research can be assessed by the robustness of research design and rigour in its application. CSIE takes pride in departing from conventional ways of representing research and, instead, makes every effort to produce accessible and engaging materials, in order to reach wider audiences and maximise impact.

CSIE’s research activities include regular reports on school placement trends of all local authorities in England (i.e. the proportion of children placed by each local authority in an ordinary local school and the proportion of children being sent to separate “special” schools) and a small scale project on choice of school for parents of disabled children.

CSIE has organised a number of national conferences, for example on the role of Learning Supporters, The Index for Inclusion and children’s rights. CSIE staff frequently attend conferences as contributors and/or delegates and regularly make a CSIE display and bookstall available at relevant events. Please contact the CSIE office to request this for your event.

CSIE has been the UK partner in a Comenius-funded European programme to develop a network of parents and educational professionals interested in developing inclusive education. Although the funded project came to an end in December 2006, the network is still being maintained. Please visit the INCLUES – Clues to inclusive and cognitive education website for more information.

We have recently (autumn 2007) formed Inclusion UK, in collaboration with the three lead organisations at the heart of promoting inclusive education for disabled learners: the Alliance for Inclusive Education, Disability Equality in Education and Parents for Inclusion. More information is available in our Inclusion UK launch event news item.

CSIE organised a national inclusion week in 1992 and in 2002, to mark each decade of the Centre’s life.