ABSTRACT
In this chapter we consider the background policies and legislation driving the implementation that may have contributed to many of the problems with inclusion experienced in England. The Government’s most recent Green Paper is intended to pave the way for new SEND reforms which are likely to involve changes to the current SEND Code of Practice. It follows the comprehensive Parliamentary Education Select Committee SEND Review which was set up to investigate the implementation of the Government SEND reforms of 2014 and whose report was severely critical of these. In this chapter the reason for such criticism is discussed as well as some of the main obstacles, impact and original intentions of those reforms. It aims to open up debate about a positive way forward, by divesting ‘full inclusion’ of the concept that it is irretrievably synonymous with children’s human rights. Instead, it aims to consider more objectively how children’s human rights are being served by the current practice of what has come to be termed ‘inclusion’ in education.
