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The document discusses a documentary investigating whether schools and colleges meet the needs of disabled students. It introduces Solihull Sixth Form College and interviews students, staff member Suzanne Medley, and Principal Paul Ashdown about facilities for physical disabilities and supporting a student with a visual impairment.

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Voice Over Script

The document discusses a documentary investigating whether schools and colleges meet the needs of disabled students. It introduces Solihull Sixth Form College and interviews students, staff member Suzanne Medley, and Principal Paul Ashdown about facilities for physical disabilities and supporting a student with a visual impairment.

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Voice over script:

VO: 1 in 20 children are disabled in the UK alone. Law states every person
should be equal and have equal opportunities.
This is all good in practice but in theory is this really the case?
In this documentary we want to find out if schools and colleges meet the
needs of those who have a disability and discover what it's really like to be
at school and disabled.
(Title 1)
(Intro to college)
VO: To begin our investigation we went to the Solihull Sixth Form College
in Solihull, who has a hand full of disabled students and staff, to see what
they thought about the issue. The college proudly says they strive for
equality and diversity and want students to achieve academic distinction
and personal growth.
(Silent shots of voxpops)
We decided to talk to the students at the college to see how much knew
about what the college does in order to meet the needs of those who are
disabled. We began by asking them how many facilities there are in this
college for those with a physical disability.
(Voxpops)
We then went on to ask what them what a sign representing a disabled
toilet meant, which was unknowingly behind them.
(Voxpops)
(Shot of Paul)
We talked to the Principle of the college Paul Ashdown, and asked him if
he thought the college met all the needs of those who were physically
disabled?
( Clip of Paul)
(Clip of student researching legislation)
It's against the law for a school or other education provider to treat
disabled students unfavourably. Under the equality act of 2010
educational institutions have legal obligations which means they cannot

discriminate, harass or victimise. This includes indirect discrimination


which means the college is not accessible for students with disabilities.
Last year A Trailblazers' survey of 100 UK universities found only half of
those questioned confirmed that all areas were fully accessible for
students with mobility difficulties.
We to look further into this we asked Paul Ashdown what the college does
to make it widely accessible
(Shot to reception desk)
To get a second opinion on the topic we talked to Suzanne Medley a
physically disabled member of staff at the college to see how she felt the
college meeting her needs.
(Suzanne Interview)
45% of disabled people said that they had experienced problems at school
as consequences of their impairments. To see if this was the case at the
Solihull Sixth form College, we talked to student Rebecca, who has a visual
impairment resulting in her unable to see and having to walk round with a
stick or otherwise known as a 'white cane'.
Rebecca then kindly showed us her equipment that helps her daily, in
order to do simple tasks such as printing her work which other students
may not think twice about doing.
If you have any queries on the topic go to one of the following websites for
help and information.
Later on we will be talking to students and Paul Ashdown about the
schools disability officer. And will be discussing with Rebecca further about
her time at college.

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