The Education and Training Sector

There around 18,700 children in England and Wales between the ages of 5 and 16 with a visual impairment (1)

Only 5% of key stage 4 titles are available in alternative formats (1)

92% frequently experienced difficulties obtaining off the shelf large print textbooks and 85% for Braille textbooks. (1)

The Disability Equality Duty (DED) is an essential new tool for promoting disability equality within the primary and secondary education sector. Under the new duty, all those covered by the DED must have produced a disability equality scheme as of 4th December 2006 (2)

Primary and Secondary Special Schools and Pupil Referral Units had until the 3rd December 2007 to produce details of their scheme

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Sources:
‘Too Little Too Late’ 2006
www.drc.org.uk