Disaster of 'Inclusive' Special Needs Teaching, by the Woman Behind It ; After Three Decades, Baroness Warnock Finally Admits That the Push to Educate All Children Together Wasn't Such a Bright Idea After All

Daily Mail › June 09, 2005

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THE woman behind the drive to educate children with special needs in mainstream schools admitted yesterday it had been a disaster.

In an extraordinary climbdown, Baroness Warnock said she believed the system was failing thousands of vulnerable youngsters.

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Disaster of 'Inclusive' Special Needs Teaching, by the Woman Behind It ; After Three Decades, Baroness Warnock Finally Admits That the Push to Educate All Children Together Wasn't Such a Bright Idea After All

The 81-year- old academic said the inclusive approach had been a 'bright idea in the 1970s' but admitted it 'really isn't working'.

The policy had resulted in a 'disastrous legacy' of forced removal of youngsters from special schools, she said.

The pressure to push them into mainstream education had created 'confusion of which children are the casualties'.

Lady Warnock said the present syst...

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