If someone is treated unfairly because of their disability, or because of something arising from their disability, this may be disability discrimination.

In some cases a non-disabled child or young person could be discriminated against if a school

• follows a policy or practice which unfairly disadvantages them in the same way as it disadvantages disabled children and young people or
• doesn’t treat them as well as other non-disabled children or young people because the school thought they were disabled when they’re not or because of their association with a disabled person.

For information on where to find out about discrimination which is not related to disability please see our signposting page.

Click the links below to read more. 

 

What is disability discrimination?

Types of disability discrimination

Things to consider before making a disability discrimination claim

Procedure for disability discrimination claims