Trish Grant

The future of the country's most expensive schools remains in limbo.

Enrolments have doubled at the three boarding schools for disabled children but remain below the numbers they are funded for.

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IHC is calling for investment and rapid changes in order to stop students with disabilities facing discrimination and consistent disadvantages in the education sector.

An Education Review Office… Audio

The Minister of Education and his Ministry are being taken to court over the rights of intellectually disabled children to go to school.

The advocacy group IHC says the children are being… Audio

IHC Director of Advocacy is calling the case of an autistic teenager excluded from school appalling.

The Auckland boy was stood down and forced to leave after an altercation with another student.

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Today the Government announced the next steps for people with life-shortening congenital conditions to be able to gain early access to their KiwiSaver. People with four congenital conditions - Down… Audio

Disability advocates are celebrating after the government announced there will be early Kiwisaver access for people with certain life-shortening congenital conditions.

Four conditions were approved -… Audio

Waiting times to get specialist help for disabled pre-schoolers have been sharply reduced but child advocates say any delay is still too long.

After years of criticism, the Education Ministry has cut… Audio

Parents of disabled children are telling the IHC they have had schools illegally refuse to enrol their children or set limits on how many hours they can go to school.

A new survey by the IHC also… Audio

Parents of disabled children have told the IHC their children are bullied at school, don't get enough support, and in some case have been blocked from enrolling altogether.

The organisation, which… Audio

The state of funding in the disability sector has been laid bare - and it doesn't paint a pretty picture. Trish Grant from advocacy group IHC joins us to discuss the issues, and how to solve them. Audio

Principals are anxious their school might miss out on one of the 600 new learning support coordinators who will organise help for children with special needs from next year.

The government announced… Audio

Schools that block or discourage disabled children from attending classes for the entire school day are in for a shock - the Education Ministry has proposed a law change giving children the legal… Audio

Disability groups are welcoming a suggestion that children's right to attend school be protected by law. The Education Ministry is consulting on the proposal, which would build on the existing right… Audio

Waiting times for children with disabilities and behaviour problems to get help have jumped 30 percent in the last year. The average delay between a request for support and the service beginning… Audio

Advocates for children with disabilities are denouncing Treasury advice as discriminatory, resulting in insufficient funding for desperately needed teacher aides, speech and language therapists… Audio

IHC is joining a chorus of voices calling for more rapid specialist support for young children with disabilities. Preschoolers with special needs are having to wait an average of three months for… Audio

The IHC is welcoming the news that Ashley Peacock will be released from a mental health unit and live in the community. Mr Peacock's case made it into the media when it was revealled he was living in… Audio

People with disabilities struggling to find homes in the tight rental market want the government to set aside social housing especially for them.

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