Mark Vaughan sets up the Centre for Studies on Integration in Education, responding to the 1981 Education Act’s requirement to educate disabled children in mainstream schools.

CSIE visits Massachusetts, to learn how visionary local law on inclusive education shaped national laws, and publishes a report.

Belinda Shaw joins Mark Vaughan as co-director. CSIE continues to place its work on a human rights and social justice platform.

CSIE’s Inclusion Charter is launched.  Over the years, the Inclusion Charter was signed by many organisations and authorities around the world.

The London Borough of Newham shows that by transforming schools, not children, inclusion works and exam results improve. CSIE publishes the story.

After 3 years of intense work and collaboration with schools in London, Oldham and Manchester, the first edition of the Index for Inclusion is published.

CSIE publishes guidance on learning supporters and hosts two national conferences on their role in mainstream schools.

National Inclusion Week to celebrate 20 years of CSIE. Hundreds of schools, professionals, parents, pupils, academics and others across the UK join in with activities.

CSIE sent 2 representatives from the UK to New York to strengthen the human rights perspective in Article 24 (Education) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

CSIE is commissioned to produce a guide for schools to develop a single equality policy, and plays an active role in national preparations for the Equality Act 2010.

CSIE hosts Canadian education leaders, marking 40 years of Hamilton-Wentworth’s “Each Belongs” inclusion strategy with events throughout the country.

CSIE introduces pupil workshops on disability equality, following EHRC’s recommendation that schools should do more to help pupils learn about disability equality.

Equality: Making It Happen is published and wins an Innovative Practice International recognition from the Zero Project, for a world with zero barriers.

CSIE introduces more direct support for schools and other settings, in the form of support for equality audits engaging the whole school community

CSIE contributes to European-funded IMAS II project, on Improving Assistance in schools, and produces an online Knowledge Box for Learning Supporters.

CSIE’s director runs 67.6 miles in 26 days during lockdown, while Inclusive Solutions host an online PATH event gathering supporters to help carve a way forward.

New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) is commissioned to carry out a Health Check of CSIE and produces a very positive report.

With professional support and volunteers, CSIE creates an archive of its 42-year history, expected to be hosted by the Centre for Disability Studies, Leeds