In 2002 the Centre for Studies in Inclusive Education is 20 years old. So the Centre is celebrating with Inclusion Week (IW).

Inclusion Week is launched!

CSIE launched the week with two new publications, the latest statistics on inclusion in England and the 2002 reissue of the Inclusion Charter. At the launch, Kairen Cullen, chair of the educational and child psychology division of the British Psychological Society, was cheered as she signed the Charter. She said:

I am proud to be representing all my colleague psychologists in the British Psychological Society at this important event, signing up on their behalf to the Inclusion Charter which we regard as a clear statement of intent on our part.

Mark Vaughan, Founder of CSIE, said that thousands of people were taking part in the week, with 250 events listed on this site, 16 of which are happening outside the UK. Among these are children in a Lebanon refugee camp recording a song, and schools and kindergartens in Casablanca piloting the Index for Inclusion.

At the end of the week a major new publication, Social and educational justice - the human rights framework for inclusion, was launched.

CSIE also held a day conference, Using the Index for Inclusion, to mark the end of the week.

There has been progress in recent years with moves towards greater inclusion in education and society generally. The UK Government has now committed itself to promoting inclusion in education settings as part of a wider range of social policies that recognise and accommodate human diversity.

Thousands of pre-school settings, schools,colleges and universities are developing inclusive policies and practices. In the last decade most local education authorities (LEAs) have reduced segregation. Networks of support in the mainstream have been extended, creating changing patterns in local education.