Towards a more inclusive education system: Where next for special schools?

Mary Warnock’s recent pamphlet Special Educational Needs: A New Look, has intensified the debate about inclusive education. In some ways this has been helpful; it has moved the issue nearer to the centre of the ongoing debate about the future of education in this country. Unfortunately, it has also had a negative impact, in the sense that it has tended to encourage some in the field to retreat into traditional stances.