CYP Now - Resources: Review - Disabled access for parents at schools

There are 2.1 million disabled parents with children under 16 in the UK, and yet the Disability Discrimination Act does not fully cover them. Children and staff are both covered by the Act, and parents are covered in the provision of non-educational services. But in practice many schools are in breach of this duty to disabled parents.

I hope that amendments to include schools in a new public duty to promote disability equality will finally and unequivocally bring parents and governors under the disability discrimination law. Jenny Morris's report, based on interviews with 45 disabled parents and organisations representing them, provides a fascinating and timely insight into bad and good practice.

Disabled parents can face many barriers when they choose a school that is inaccessible to disabled people. For example, visiting the school itself if it does not have disabled access, and getting information in accessible formats, although one blind parent featured had a more positive experience when children were asked to read their work to her.

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