YOUNG adults with learning disabilities from Foxes Academy in Minehead travelled to London this week to help launch a national campaign to highlight the need for educational equality for disabled people. The students from the town's residential catering college and training hotel spent Tuesday at the Old Palace Yard opposite the Houses of Parliament. They were there to launch the Natspec (The Association of National Specialist Colleges) campaign for young people with learning difficulties or disabilities to have equal access to education. The students were able to voice their concerns about funding cuts by telling their stories to MPs, peers and the media. A spokesman for Foxes said recent changes to the funding system, coupled with the approach taken by many local authorities, was preventing students and their families from making the most of the opportunities promised in the new Children and Families Act. Academy director Maureen Tyler-Moore said: "Our country's most vulnerable young people are at the mercy of short-term thinking. "Over 88 per cent of Foxes Academy's learners from the past five years have got jobs after leaving us, with 85 per cent going on to live semi-independently. "Learners with disabilities deserve the choice to attend the college that enables them to reach their full potential. "To become young adults who are valued members of their communities who achieve meaningful employment, independent living and a happy social life." Pictured are Foxes learners with academy patron Rosa Monckton.