The Independent Panel for Special Education Advice will lobby the Government to give the Disability Rights Commission the power to investigate complaints of local education authorities failing to fulfill their legal duties.
The move would allow the commission to issues orders and fines, bringing it into line with its powers over companies that break discrimination law.
John Wright, director of the panel, which helps parents appeal against their local education authorities, said he would be pressing for an amendment to the Disability Discrimination Bill, currently going through parliament.
"There is a need for somebody to be able to tackle local education authorities which are able to deny the law except and unless an individual person brings them to book," he said. "If parents do not come forward then they can get off the hook.
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