ABSTRACT
Margaret Peter is the editor of the British Journal of Special Education and early in 1989 she was asked to coordinate the production of the National Curriculum Council’s guidance for schools on special educational needs in the National Curriculum as consultant editor. This chapter tells the story of putting together a document which had to blend and fuse the views of a large disparate group of people and steer a path between differing voices in the National Curriculum Council (NCC), Department of Education and Science (DES) and the School Examinations and Assessment Council (SEAC). The report A Curriculum for All (NCC 1989a) to be circulated to every school in the country was put together in just a few breathless months.
