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Supporting Inclusion in the Early Years – brief summary

• Background Warnock Report (DES 1978) significant landmark in special education stating that the purpose of education for all children is the same, the goals are the same, but the help individual children need in progressing towards them will be different.

• The Children Act (1989) and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 both defined disability as:--

"A child is disabled if he is blind, deaf, or dumb or suffers from a mental disorder of any kind of is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity or such other disability as may be prescribed". (Children Act 1989:17.11)

• Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation stage (Dfee/QCA 2000) which established a framework of stepping stones towards early learning goals (replaced desirable learning outcomes) encompassing children from their third birthday to the end of the reception class year. Guidance states that no child should......

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