Clause 2 - Duties in relation to diversity and choice
Education and Inspections Bill
10:15 am
Mary Creagh (Wakefield, Labour)
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that our discussion in Committee on Tuesday and the difficulties that our Chairman had demonstrate the dangers and wrongs of educating people with special needs—he mentioned the closure of schools for the deaf—in a segregated system? People who are educated in a segregated system, as we all were, have no awareness of the need to speak clearly and to remove their hands from their mouths so that people who are profoundly deaf from birth or who acquire hearing loss can hear them. Does he agree that the debate in the Committee on Tuesday and the difficulties of our Chairman illustrate that point exactly? That is why deaf people’s education should not be segregated.