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      <title>Mr Richard Mctaggart [Signature #135]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Richard Mctaggart, Rowde, Wiltshire, United Kingdom<p>this is totally unfair!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms simone aspis [Signature #134]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 2013 05:41:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #133]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:21:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>nick clarke [Signature #132]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:38:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Isobel Capelin [Signature #131]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:59:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jack Blake [Signature #130]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:52:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Tina Dugard [Signature #129]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tina Dugard<p>This is a clear case of discrimination against a person who is already struggling with severe disabilities. Sterre should be given all the help she needs to complete the course.  If it was agreed for her to have PAs when she enrolled, then she should be entitled to bring them!</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:09:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Artemi Sakellariadis [Signature #127]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:36:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ana Moreno-Ariza [Signature #126]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:24:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #125]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>Typical.  Newham has been &#039;hiding&#039; under the inclusion thing for too long without moving on further to help our children.  Unless the parents stand together we will get nowhere.  Good luck.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #124]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous<p>This decision is both disgraceful and unfair.  Is this really what you call inclusion in the Big Society?  Never underestimate people with disabilities.  In this case Sterre wanted to do the course.  Think carefully about it if she did not think she could do it at all, do you really think she would even apply to do it in the first place?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Steven Loader [Signature #123]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 02:23:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs karen croft [Signature #122]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs karen croft<p>continuity of support by those who understand and know a person is crucial to enable a person to fully paticipate and achieve. Communication is a two way street which enables and empowers people to develop friendships and relationships.To deny this opportunity for personal support by people who the person has chosen is not only wrong but short sighted in this economic climate. The college would be provided with additional resource at no cost to enable her to undertake, participate fully and achieve her chosen career with the right support and be able to direct the college suport towards others who may not have their own personal assistance. A win win situation in terms of choice, control and cost effectiveness, what is the issue really?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Jacqui Cousins [Signature #121]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Jacqui Cousins, Totnes, Devon<p>With such a good reputation for INCLUSION and an excellent Ofsted report which reflects that, how can Newham College exclude Sterre Ploeger from her chosen course for such a flimsy reason? Like many colleagues in education and psychology, I have worked for years in Britain and with the UN to move INCLUSION from VISION to ACTION! We have all just enjoyed a fabulous PARALYMPICS and Arts Festival! My most thrilling event was the CANDOCO dance performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last Friday! I bet all the participants would be shocked by this marginalisation of Sterre a potentially joyful future performing artist! I hope Marc Brew and all the Company hear about it Sterre and sign your petition! GOOD LUCK Sterre and lots of love from Jacqui XXX</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Julie Stansfield [Signature #120]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Julie Stansfield, United Kingdom<p>A personal assistant is just that....&quot;personal&quot; Sterre should not be prevented from attending her education with her own support.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mr Anonymous [Signature #119]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Bury, Choose a County, United Kingdom<p>good luck  with  this  and<br />
take care<br />
let me know how it goods</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Andy Summers [Signature #118]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andy Summers, Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:27:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Paul Allender [Signature #117]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Paul Allender, Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom<p>It&#039;s ridiculous!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:05:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:42:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Paula Edmondson [Signature #115]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:00:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Imogen Facey [Signature #114]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:46:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Pam Roberston [Signature #113]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:33:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Susan Brennan [Signature #112]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Susan Brennan, Australia<p>Keep up the fight! Helen Keller had these problems when getting an education too and you can see where that got her! You are worthy of an education!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:29:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Deborah Pearson [Signature #111]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Deborah Pearson<p>This is blatant discrimination &amp; exclusion!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:48:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Susan Harris [Signature #110]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Susan Harris, sowerby bridge, west yorkshire, United Kingdom<p>Just so sad to hear this after two weeks of pure brilliance One step forward and two back hang your head Newham!!!! ALL MEANS ALL!!!!<br />
Sue Harris</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Gelila Tekle-Mariam [Signature #109]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Gelila Tekle-Mariam, United Kingdom<p>A nations greatness is determined by its ability and efforts to include everyone.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Emma Alliband [Signature #108]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Emma Alliband, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:39:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss sandi beers, long eaton, nottinghamshire, United Kingdom<p>This is blatant discrimination and as a parent to four children with additional needs, this leaves me deeply saddened that young people and adults can be excluded in this manner. This summer the nation had the opportunity to bring the world to our doorstep and we together showed the world what is possible. I have never seen so many young people with physical disabilities out and proud of their difference.  This is the legacy that we need to work on, not discrimination and exclusion. this is the 21st century and institutions should not exist, this exclusion is keeping this eventuality within the present and not in the past, where it truly belongs</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Susan Lipscombe, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom<p>Discrimination against anyone who has a disability is against the law.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Don Jones [Signature #105]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Don Jones, BRISTOL, AVON, United Kingdom<p>THIS IS A PEACE OF EDUCATION THAT THIS COLLAGE MAY LIKE TO INCORPORATE THE THERE CURRICULUM<br />
FROM A BROTHER CARER THAT SUPPORT  AN ADULT WITH SERVER LEARNING DIFFICULTY THAT OFTEN HAVE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT THINK ALL PERSONS IN THE WORLD ARE THE SAME<br />
DON<br />
DON</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:43:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Melanie Phillipson [Signature #103]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Melanie Phillipson, Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom<p>For a college student who needs support by people that they have built up an exsisting relationship with to enable them to complete their chosen course should not be questioned but supported.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Les Scaife [Signature #102]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Les Scaife, Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom<p>Newham College appear not to recognise the Personalisation Agenda that gives disabled people control and choice over their lives.<br />
Disabled people do not need anything &quot;special&quot; what they need is the same as everybody else has access to. The bit that is missing is the support to access what we all enjoy.  Sterre is bringing the support who know and understand her disability and are able to give her the support needed to get her through the course and the day.<br />
I would say this is a case for a judicial review.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:02:01 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mx R A Young, Hulme, Manchester, United Kingdom<p>Newham&#039;s actions are bizarre and unjustifiable. If anything they should be paying for Sterre&#039;s PAs themselves, not trying to stop her from having them at all!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Pamela Hall, United Kingdom<p>Sterre simply wants her PAs to be with her at college to aid her communication. Who can disagree with that?</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nrs Annie Harrison, Devizes, Wiltshire, UK, United Kingdom<p>A somewhat specious and totally backward decision.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Sue Eagle, Hempnall, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom<p>Sterre should be allowed &amp; encouraged to be part of the course in the best way possible to give her equal access to learning.  I&#039;m amazed that these days that isn&#039;t just happening as a matter of course.</p>]]></description>
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<p>Think long and hard about it. I know you will make the right decision :)</p>]]></description>
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