New Equality Act disability guidance for education settings

Council for Disabled Children (CDC) has published three sets of guidance for schools on their duties towards disabled pupils: two are updates of existing guidance, one (on the accessibility planning duty) is entirely new. The DfE commissioned these materials.

This new guidance follows a similar publication for early years settings and for FE colleges.

Schools: Read the 

• CDC Blog
• CDC Guides

Early Years:

·        CDC Blog 

·        CDC Training and guides 

FEIs and 16-19 academies:

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

·       CDC post Coming out of the ‘long shadow of compromised ambition’: two new guides for FE colleges on the disability duties in the Equality Act