UCU: Reform’s attacks on SEND and disabled people

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
On 22nd April, Five Acre Wood School in Kent announced threat to jobs related to SEND student needs due to budgetary constraints.
In April, Rivers Age Concern services which assist disabled elders were unable to continue and wHoo Care service helping disabled people lost its funding
Congress believes:
Reform flagship County Council Kent has declared war on asylum seekers, claiming the “people of Kent” are paying for them. Behind this racist rhetoric, they are attacking marginalised groups and cutting funding to working class people, disproportionately affecting disabled people.
Congress instructs NEC to:
i. Continue providing solidarity and support to SEND services, including with NEU and FE branches
ii. Work with branches in Reform-run councils to build effective campaigns against division and support disabled and Black people’s and migrants’ struggles.
iii. Continue working with Together to create mass unity against the rise of the far right.