How social class deepens inequalities experienced by disabled young people in England’s mainstream schools

By Angharad Butler-Rees, University of Warwick. [Reseach team: Stella Chatzitheochari, Angharad Butler-Rees and Melissa Chapple] The SEND deficit for councils in England was £1.3 billion in March 2022, an increase …

The stark inequalities of social mobility of disabled young adults in England

Childhood disability has been conspicuously absent from longstanding social mobility and intergenerational inequality debates. This is partly due to the persistence of medical interpretations of disability, which disregard the negative …

The inequalities in Post-16 education and work for young disabled people

By Stella Chatzitheochari (University of Warwick) & Sanne Velthuis (University of Warwick & University of Manchester)  Official figures reveal that disabled young people lag behind in GCSE attainment. Yet, we …

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