Mary warnock biography

Baroness Warnock says pressure to include pupils with problems in mainstream schools causes "confusion of which children are the casualties".

She also says the way the most severe needs are assessed is "wasteful and bureaucratic" and "must be abolished".

She wants a "radical review" by an independent committee of inquiry.

In a pamphlet to be published later this month by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Lady Warnock calls for a fundamental re-thinking of the concept of inclusion, in which children with physical or emotional difficulties are encouraged to be taught in mainstream schools.

'Disastrous legacy'

This ideal of inclusiveness "springs from hearts in the right place" but she describes its implementation and the consequent movi Ethics Since 1900 - Wikipedia POL