Ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, is one of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (UN 2015, 17). Inclusion has been a political commitment in Germany since the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. However, inclusive measures in the vocational school system have long been neglected and it is only since 2016 that the inclusion of persons with disabilities at vocational schools in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, became compulsory (Wirth 2015).
