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DDA win for schoolboy banned from trips
A sixteen-year-old schoolboy who was banned from school trips because of his diabetes has won the first round of a legal fight against his school. Tom White's case, which was supported by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), is the first disability discrimination case taken against a school. Preston County Court found that Clitheroe Royal Grammar School could not use a loophole in anti-discrimination legislation to ban Tom from a watersports trip to France. Currently, the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) does not cover the education system. But the judge ruled that the school should have allowed Tom to go on the activity trip as it would not be seen as part of Tom's formal education. Tom White said: ?At last I can go on trips with my school friends ? all I wanted was to be treated like everyone else, not to be made to feel different just because I have diabetes. "I hope that no other pupil has to suffer discrimination of this nature." In September 2002, schools, colleges and universities must make reasonable adjustments for disabled pupils and students and cease discriminating against disabled people during the admissions process. Patrick Greaney 18 Jan, 2002
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