ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to exercise our rights and where to seek advice. Schools as public bodies also need to comply with the legal requirement and to demonstrate how they are meeting these obligations. International treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People 2006 and the EU Framework designed to implement it, have had an enormous impact on disabled people’s rights in signatory countries across the world. The chapter also looks at how these rights are expressed within present education policy, and it looks at how these can be supported and taught within school’s settings using the Rights Respecting Schools programme so that students and whole school communities can become advocates and active citizens. It lays out the key dates of the legal frameworks that support both disability rights and inclusion. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the ‘national equality body’ for the whole of the United Kingdom.
