IN 2003 the introduction of a new policy to ensure pupils with special needs had the right to be educated with their peers in a mainstream school was greeted with optimism.
The proposal to integrate children with additional support needs (ASN) into primary and secondary schools, rather than educating them separately in special schools, has the support of the United Nations on the grounds it is the right of every child to be educated in their local community regardless of physical disabilities, learning difficulties or social, emotional or behavioural problems.
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