Title: No Such thing as a Good ‘Special ’ School- The Expropriation of Education

By sharing a vision of inclusion this paper draws upon the parallel between exclusion and the struggle for inclusion within mainstream education. This paper introduces current research that engages in the experiences of young people permanently excluded from mainstream school. This research can inform our understanding and create a vision of inclusion if we work from a premise that we are trying to create a continuity of provision where a young person is valued and accepted as having a right to education and on leaving school; a right to employment, a right to mainstream provision in college, university, a right to opportunities in adult life and opportunities to build relationships