An angry parent collared Tory leader David Cameron last week, demanding to know why his party wants to make it harder for children with special educational needs (SEN) to attend mainstream schools.
This is a charge that Cameron and his team strongly deny. They argue that Tory SEN policy promotes neither inclusion nor specialist provision, but parental choice.
But the Conservative manifesto does have inclusion campaigners worried, as do Liberal Democrat policies on the issue.
The right to inclusion
The Conservatives want to end the "moratorium on the ideologically-driven closure of special schools" and "end the bias towards the inclusion of children with SEN in mainstream schools".
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