Work and Pensions minister Alan Johnson said schools had "a significant bearing on the life chances of disabled people", as he made the announcement in Parliament last week.
Christine Lenehan, director of the Council for Disabled Children, said: "As schools are given an increasingly central community role, they have an even more vital part to play in promoting the inclusion of disabled children."
Johnson said that regulations would have to apply "sufficiently flexibly to schools", adding: "They must avoid requiring schools to produce unnecessary paperwork, instead allowing them to fulfil any duty by using existing mechanisms to demonstrate they are thinking about how they serve disabled people."
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