David Cameron and a confrontation with the parent of a disabled child скачать в хорошем качестве

David Cameron and a confrontation with the parent of a disabled child

The father of a boy with spina bifida confronted David Cameron today over Tory plans to open up mainstream schools to more children with disabilities. Jonathan Bartley, who was with his seven-year-old son Samuel when he challenged the Tory leader, accused the Conservatives of planning to segregate disabled children who face discrimination in mainstream schools. The Tories have pledged in their manifesto to "end the bias" in the education system which encourages disabled children to be educated in mainstream, rather than special, schools. But the party says parents would be free to choose which sort of school is best for their child. Cameron, who told Bartley how he faced a "hell of a battle" to prevent the closure of his late's son special school, personally wrote this section of the manifesto. It states: "The most vulnerable children deserve the very highest quality of care, so we will call a moratorium on the ideologically-driven closure of special schools. We will end the bias towards the inclusion of children with special needs in mainstream schools." Bartley a writer, lecturer and co-director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia and who worked in parliament in the 1990s standing next to Samuel, who uses a wheelchair, confronted Cameron as the Tory leader left the Oasis centre in Kennington, south London, after delivering a speech on the "broken society". He said: "It is the wrong way to go. You are not representing the needs of children in mainstream education. You want to segregate disabled children. You talk about the broken society. It nearly broke up our family getting our son into school." Cameron told Bartley that, as the father of a disabled child himself, he was "passionate" about ensuring children receive the best education that is right for them. "I absolutely promise you that I would never do anything to make it more difficult for children to go to a mainstream school," Cameron said as he spoke of how he battled to prevent the closure of his late son's school, Jack Tizzard. guardian.co.uk