Evaluate the success of a recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice. SENDO.

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Evaluate the success of a recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice.

The recent initiative I am going to discuss that successfully promotes anti-discriminatory practice is that of SENDO. Anti-discriminatory practice is the main strategy in combating discrimination. It is action taken to prevent discrimination on the grounds of race, class, gender, disability and so on. SENDO stands for Special Educational Needs and Disability Order. It came into operation on the 1st September 2005. The following is a brief summary of the provisions of SENDO:

  • It increases the right of children to inclusion in mainstream schooling if that is the wish of their parents and is compatible with the provision of efficient education for other children.
  • Imposes a duty on Education and Library Boards to provide for parents with children with special educational needs advice and information relating to those needs.
  • Imposes a duty on Education and Library Boards to provide a means of avoiding or resolving disputes between schools or Boards and parents.
  • Imposes a duty on Boards to comply with orders of the  within certain time limits
  • Imposes a duty on schools to inform a parent if special educational provision is being made for their child.
  • Permits a “responsible body” to request a review or assessment of educational needs.
  • Brings Northern Ireland schools within the scope of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

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SENDO is successful in promoting anti-discriminatory practice as the code of practice makes it unlawful for bodies responsible for the provision of education and other associated services to discriminate against disabled pupils and prospective pupils. SENDO makes it illegal to treat disabled people less favourably for a reason related to their disability: to make reasonable adjustments’, to ensure, where reasonable, education is fully accessible to disabled people and to ensure victimisation does not occur. The ‘reasonable adjustment’ duty is both an anticipatory and reactive duty.

SENDO is successful in promoting anti-discriminatory practice as it was the major push and support ...

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