Include Me TOO

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Disability Rights UK issues our statement on the Timms Review interim report, which was published today.

"With the hostile political backdrop, Disabled people are fully justified in being concerned about the scope of the Review recommendations"

Full statement 👇
https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-statement-timms-review-interim-report

Hope everyone is enjoying the Summer so far as we head towards the Summer Holidays 🌞

We have been busy organising our Summer TIMEOUT programme full of fun activities and inclusive adventures for disabled children and young people including family days out 💙

We have organised the following fun packed sessions.

✅ 🏄🏼‍♀️🏄🏾🏄🏻‍♂️Inclusive Surfability (Swansea)

✅ Black Country Living Museum

✅ 🎳 Inclusive Bowling Fun

✅ 🐟🐬🐠🐙⚓️ Sealife Centre

✅ Lego Discovery Centre

✅. West Midlands Safari Park

✅ 🐎 Horse Riding

✅ 🛶 🧗🏽‍♂️Woodlands Adventure - zipwiring, absailing, canoeing

✅ 🐒🐘🦍🦁 🏰 Dudley Zoo and Castlle

✅ 🪂 Ifly (Indoor Sky Diving) - Age limit 10 years plus

We are taking bookings till 20th July 2026. To receive booking forms to book a places email [email protected] or contact our team on 01902 399888 / 07940367753. Do provide a contact number.

Another TIMEOUT summer increasing access to new adventures, friendships, new experiences and fun fun fun!! 🤗 ♿️❤️🫶🏼

The Government thinks the SEND system is broken because of the LAW. It's not. It's broken because councils don't FOLLOW it. Fixing the wrong problem won't make the real problem go away...Read the article by I.P.S.E.A Policy Manager, Catriona Moore on THE SOCR WEBSITE, https://saveourchildrensrights.org.uk/2026/07/send-law-not-problem-councils-flouting-must-tackled/
Councils routinely make unlawful decisions on EHC Plans — we know this because the SEND Tribunal finds in favour of parents almost all the time. But it doesn’t stop them; they do it again and again. Same councils. Same breaches. No accountability. So why is the Government choosing to ignore this endemic law-breaking?

We hope you can join us at this COSP19 hybrid event at the 19th session of the Conference of State Parties to the CRPD

TITLE: CRPD 20 years impact on Children and Young People with Disabilities Lives and their Rights.

DATE: 📅 Wednesday 10th June 2026

TIME: ⏰ 1:15pm to 2:30pm (New York EDT)

⏰ 6:15pm to 7:30pm (London BST)

⏰ 10:45pm to 12:00am (Delhi UTC)

⏰ 8:15pm to 9:30pm (Nairobi EAT)

The 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides an opportunity to reflect how transformative the last two decades have been; in making a difference to the global disability rights of children and young people with disabilities.

You can register on this link https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__2YP4ooLQtOHm8SJj1gUrg #/registration

Closed captioning and International Sign Language will be available.

We do hope you can join us and support us to reach a wide audience by sharing this post amongst your networks and colleagues.

You can contact the team by email for any enquiries regarding the event [email protected]

Join us for upcoming important event: 📢

Impact of SEND Reforms on Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children, young people and their families

Include Me TOO, Black SEN Mamas and South Asian SEN Mamas have organised an important event for parents and carers from our diverse SEND communities regarding the SEND Reforms impact on Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children, young people and their families.

Despite the growing evidence of racial disparity in SEND, particularly as far as being disproportionately impacted by inequality, barriers to support, exclusion and lack of representation, Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people are STILL being overlooked within conversations around SEND reform.

Following the joint letter to DfE requesting an extension for the SEND Reforms this event will is an important conversation on the impact of SEND reforms on our communities and why our voices must be heard within the future of SEND policy and provision.

This is an interactive virtual event, aimed at ensuring the voices from racisalised communities are being platformed, in conversations surrounding SEND. We strongly encourage SEND parents/carers, teachers, specialists and allies to attend.
We aim to explore what can we do collectively to influence better futures for our Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people.

Discussions will cover:

➡️ Do the SEND reforms risk disproportionately affecting Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people?

➡️ Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people have faced inequality within the SEND system what needs to change

➡️ Why it is important to ensure our voices are heard and views considered within the SEND Reforms Proposal.

➡️How can we collectively address the barriers and challenges for our advocacy, inclusion, representation to protect the futures of our disabled children and young people.

Do join us and attend this important event as our intersectional experiences continue to be overlooked.

Taking place 🗓️ Wednesday 3rd June 2026 online via Zoom

Morning Session ⏰ 10:15am to 12:00pm
Evening Session ⏰ 7:00pm to 9: 00pm

Register here: https://bit.ly/imt-send-reforms

If you need support to register you can email [email protected]



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Impact of SEND Reforms on Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children, young people and their families

Include Me TOO, Black SEN Mamas and South Asian SEN Mamas have organised an important event for parents and carers from our diverse SEND communities regarding the SEND Reforms impact on Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children, young people and their families.

Despite the growing evidence of racial disparity in SEND, particularly as far as being disproportionately impacted by inequality, barriers to support, exclusion and lack of representation, Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people are STILL being overlooked within conversations around SEND reform.

Following the joint letter to DfE requesting an extension for the SEND Reforms this event will is an important conversation on the impact of SEND reforms on our communities and why our voices must be heard within the future of SEND policy and provision.

This is an interactive virtual event, aimed at ensuring the voices from racisalised communities are being platformed, in conversations surrounding SEND. We strongly encourage SEND parents/carers, teachers, specialists and allies to attend.
We aim to explore what can we do collectively to influence better futures for our Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people.

Discussions will cover:

➡️ Do the SEND reforms risk disproportionately affecting Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people?

➡️ Black, Asian and minoritised disabled children and young people have faced inequality within the SEND system what needs to change

➡️ Why it is important to ensure our voices are heard and views considered within the SEND Reforms Proposal.

➡️How can we collectively address the barriers and challenges for our advocacy, inclusion, representation to protect the futures of our disabled children and young people.

Do join us and attend this important event as our intersectional experiences continue to be overlooked.

Taking place 🗓️ Wednesday 3rd June 2026 online via Zoom

Morning Session ⏰ 10:15am to 12:00pm
Evening Session ⏰ 7:00pm to 9: 00pm

Register here: https://bit.ly/imt-send-reforms

If you need support to register you can email [email protected]



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TIMEOUT our holidays programme which we have been delivering over 10 years here is a snapshot of the fun shared and new experiences during Spring 2026.

We love introducing new activities, planning inclusive activities and days out. Creating inclusive accessible opportunities for disabled children, young people, and their siblings to have fun and adventures with their peers, learning new skills, sharing new experiences, and building new friendships.

Here is a short reel hope it makes you all smile 😀

Include Me TOO - TIMEOUT Spring 2026 TIMEOUT creating opportunities for disabled children, young people,...

Include Me TOO, Black SEN Mamas and South Asian SEN Mamas want to thank our members, supporters, and allies for responding to our ‘Call To Action’ in solidarity.

Alongside over 30 organisations from Black, Asian and wider marginalised communities and allies in the SEND space, we are calling on the Department for Education to extend the SEND Reform consultation deadline so that families who are too often excluded from these conversations have a fair opportunity to be heard.

Access to SEND support should never depend on how easy a consultation is to understand, respond to, or even access.

Too many parents and carers are facing barriers including language accessibility, digital exclusion, literacy challenges and a lack of culturally responsive engagement. These reforms will directly impact disabled children, young people and their families their voices must not be left out of the process.

This is a vital step in challenging long-standing barriers to access, amplifying underrepresented voices, and ensuring that decisions about SEND reform are shaped by our children, young people and families diverse lived experiences

This collective letter highlights the urgent need for fairness, accessibility and meaningful engagement in SEND policy making.

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