Council for Disabled Children (CDC) – Embedding the disability duties in schools: new training material

Update on ‘Embedding the disability duties in schools’

“The Council for Disabled Children (CDC) had published guidance for schools, colleges and early years settings on their duties towards disabled children/young people. The DfE commissioned these materials.

The CDC has now published a webinar for schools to complement this guidance. Philippa Stobbs, the lead author on the materials, has written a blog about the new material, Embedding the disability duties in schools.

We really hope the new material will be a useful resource for schools in helping craft a more inclusive future where, to quote Ofsted, all pupils can thrive together, understanding that difference is a positive, not a negative, and that individual characteristics make people unique.

Links to all the material in this family of publications and training materials are as follows:

Schools:

• The new webinar: Guides and training packages for schools on the Disability duties in the Equality Act
• Blogs: Embedding the disability duties in schools and A more inclusive future? The new series of CDC guides to the disability duties in the Equality Act
• Guides: Guides and training packages for schools on the Disability duties in the Equality Act
• Linkedin post

Early Years:

·        Blog ‘The foundation of everything he’s achieving now’: a new guide and training package for early years providers on the disability duties in the Equality Act

·        Training and guides Guide and training package for early years providers on the disability duties in the Equality Act

·        Linkedin post

FEIs and 16-19 academies:

·        Guides for FE colleges on the disability duties in the Equality Act“

Do consider sharing information about the new training material with your networks etc.