GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

the skills to challenge this prejudice, please support this motion and please let’s

get an education programme out there for our activists. Thank you.

(Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jacqueline. Any other speakers on this motion,

please?

BRO DEWI HUGHES (AEP): Dewi Hughes, National Executive of the Association of

Educational Psychologists. I am supporting this motion on behalf of the

Association. We would heartily back this motion. As you would expect,

education psychologists work every day, every week with young people with

additional needs, special educational needs and disabilities, and agree 101%

with the previous speakers. I would just like to add that this prejudice and this,

if you like, bullying and aggression against people with additional needs or

learning differences starts actually in the schools. We are seeing an increase in

bullying of young people with SEND and that has been noted and reported by

the National Children’s Bureau.

I very much support the concept of having a toolkit developed and I think that

would be something that the AEP would be very happy, of course, to support,

to work with you to do that. My committee on the AEP would certainly be very

happy indeed to support that. I would just like to reflect, finally, on the values of

our movement, the left, and you can think of the left as an acronym, so

classically we have supported liberty, equality and fraternity. There is another

letter at the end, isn’t there? The T. That stands for “tolerance”, so we really

must get behind this motion and the practice it promotes. Thank you.

(Applause)

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Dewi. Any other speakers? (No

response)

Motion 14 was CARRIED unanimously

THE PRESIDENT: So that concludes the day. Community Motion 4 and AEP Motion

1, we are going to take those as agenda item 19 in your running order, which

will be tomorrow morning, because Motion 2 has been withdrawn, so we will

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