H. Disabilities, Basic Health and Welfare Issue 18 Education for Children with Disabilities Important Issues in Amending the SEA 87. The MOE is in the process of amending the SEA in its entirety, and the NHRC has recognized the Ministry's focus on inclusive education and reasonable accommodation, but the Ministry has not specified the scope of obligations to carry out reasonable accommodation, the procedures to handle disputes, or the means of remedy in the event of violations of rights. Neither does it treat the denial of reasonable accommodation as discriminatory and plan to impose any sanctions accordingly. Furthermore, the MOE only examined the implementation basis of the current special education support for inclusive education, such as funding, teacher-student ratio, function and ratio of assistant staff, transportation arrangement, empowering special education teachers, and adjustment to teachers' internship programs and examinations. However, the effectiveness of the implementation of these measures has not been examined from the perspective of enhancing teachers' competence and providing guidance in the general education setting. Equal Participation in Developmental Activities 88. Most of the representatives reflected in the focus groups that children with disabilities have been excluded from field trips for a long time, and many schools, through various means, require parents to accompany the students to participate in the activities, which is in effect treating parents as caregivers and constitutes discrimination and differential treatment. It also violates the CRPD's requirement that the Government should ensure that children with disabilities have the right to participate in activities on an equal basis with other children, and that an unfriendly learning environment cannot lead to truly inclusive education. The MOE stated during government agencies discussions that it had written to schools at all levels in 2019 to ask them to safeguard students' rights 47