I've been a busy bee tonight...

Have been looking into stuff for Rachel's presentation on the challenges faced by children and families in diverse communities in the UK and found some good stuff on disability. Was thinking of going down the deaf people route for mine, so looked on government websites as a starting point for some info on policies etc.

I've found lots on disability, but thought it might also be good for SEN, those of you that are doing this for Lin's presentation. I'll paste all the links below for you, but what is good that i've found is a blog written by the mother of a deaf daughter which really opens your eyes as to what challenges they face over stupid everyday things.

http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00198359/20-pathfinders-to-test-out-proposals-in-the-special-educational-needs-and-disabilities-green-paper

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/g/green%20paper%20presentation.pdf

http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/sen/a0077704/grant-funded-projects-special-educational-needs-and-disability

http://www.ndcs.org.uk/family_support/sounding_off/index.html

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DisabilityRights/DG_4001068

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DG_4019061

http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@money/documents/digitalasset/dg_195544.pdf

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10011816

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10011925

Hope this helps!!