Include all, with the quick guide.
1. If you provide a service, you have a legal duty not to treat disabled people less favourably. An event is a service, and if disabled young people can't join in, that is treating them less favourably. Do not panic. The law is not absurd, it only requires you to make reasonable adjustments. But you have to plan them in advance, to anticipate the need.
2. Remember too that the law doesn't require changes that would defeat the whole point of something. If the whole event is a five-mile fun run, you don't have to scrap it because it would exclude people who don't think it is fun to run five miles. Try to come up with inventive ways for everyone to have a bit of the action.
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