| ibk stands for inspired by Kim. Son of Pippa Murray, Kim died in 1998 as a result of his many and severe impairments. He was fifteen. |
ibk came into being as a response to founder Pippa Murray’s own family experience of impairment and disablement, and the continuing exclusion of others in similar situations. This grounding in lived experience, together with ibk’s ongoing engagement with current thinking, policy and practice, give a perspective informed by heart and mind, allowing nothing to be taken for granted in the search for ways of being that include us all.
In all its work, ibk is guided by the beliefs that the exclusion of disabled children, young people and their families is a denial of human rights, that impairment is a very natural and ordinary part of being human, that making clear the distinction between impairment and disablement (the social model of disability) is crucial to the dismantling of disabling barriers, and that inclusion is a creative process within which we all have a part to play, and much to learn from each other.