Inclusion policies

An inclusive policy vs. own responsibility of the individual client Training investment costs vs. limited returns to these investments in terms of increased employment... 

The inclusive workplace model provides a road map for implementing organizational inclusion policies and practices both within the organization and beyond its proverbial walls. It emphasizes the need to collaborate with the local community and to view... 

I was the consultant hired by UNAIDS to assist in the creation of its new Diversity and Inclusion Policy, having previously delivered global diversity training and train-the-trainer sessions for the organization. I had been doing similar training work at both the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO). 

However, as much as the UN had previously addressed the issues of human rights, UNAIDS realized that the Declaration of Human Rights and the subsequent UN Conventions (including one on Persons with Disabilities) were not specific enough to handle the challenges that people with HIV/AIDS faced. So in 2008, the organization set out to write a Diversity and Inclusion Policy that addressed these new challenges to human life... 

The UNAIDS Diversity and Inclusion Policy was released in March 2009 (as an internal document). In the following sections. 

The policy is not only a values statement but also the operational basis for institutional and individual standards of behavior and performance (UNAIDS Diversity and Inclusion Policy, 2009). 

With the approval of the Diversity and Inclusion Policy, UNAIDS has committed resources to promulgate it through training and communication. A half-day diversity and inclusion workshop has been successfully piloted with senior management (buy-in from the top is critical) and with some headquarters staff train-the-trainer sessions have been held with internal trainers to prepare them to run the workshops across all regions of the world and to enable leaders to communicate and explain the Diversity and Inclusion Policy in every country office in which UNAIDS operates. 

The UNAIDS Diversity and Inclusion Policy is a few years old now, and much substantive progress has been made. The latest strategic update from the organization spells out its goals for 2015,... 

UNAIDS Diversity and Inclusion Policy 512, 514, 516 United Nations 81, 512 United Nations Foundation 507 United Nations General Assembly ... 

Inclusion policy is perhaps among the most problematic kind, since, as Ball (1994) notes ... 

More generally, if students are encouraged to deconstruct (or interrogate the rhizomic qualities of) inclusion policies, rather than absorb and replicate then-content, they may become aware of the contradictions and inconsistencies inherent in them and recognise how aporias are disavowed and closed down. Students would then be alerted to the way in which pohcies write the teacher (Cormack and Comber, 1996, p. 119) in ways that are contradictory and oppositional (Honan, 2(X)4) and which constrain teachers actions ... 

Meijer, C. J. W. (2010). Special needs education in Europe Inclusive policies and practices. Zeitschriftfiir Inklusion. Retrieved June 17,2011, from http //www.inklusion-online.net/index. php/inklusion/article/view/56/60... 

The tribunal will have a copy of the school s SEN/inclusion policy so the school needs to make sure that there is evidence of the policy in practice with regard to the case. 

In 2004 OFSTED produced a report. Special Educational Needs and Disability - Towards Inclusive Schools, which looked at the extent to which the vision of inclusion is becoming a reality in schools. One of its main findings was that The admission and retention of pupils with social and behavioural difficulties continue to test the inclusion policies of schools. ... 

LSU should provide targeted support within the whole-school Behaviour and Inclusion Policy and Strategy. 

To establish an inclusion policy for (a.n. other) school which meets the needs of pupils and parents, sets clear guidance for staff and other agencies, and ensures the school meets its legal requirements in relation to SEN guidance, Every Child Matters and the Children s Services framework. 

Use the thinking and evidence from the strategy to formulate the inclusion policy... 

In the light of the new Children s Services agenda, it would be useful to develop an inclusion policy around the five key outcomes of Every Child Matters ... 

The following is a su ested approach to putting the inclusion policy under the five key outcomes (see CD, Chapter 3 Example 3) ... 

Be aware of the inclusion policy statement from the local authority. 

A full inclusion policy self-evaluation checklist is included on the CD, Chapter 3 Example 3. When this has been completed, it will give a guide as to where the strengths and weaknesses lie. It is at this point that additional audit tools can be used to ... 

The Every Child Matters agenda evidence can be elicited from the inclusion policy if it is constmcted under those headings, as well as from the inclusion strategy. 

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