Voices blog

For the past year or so the Citizenship Foundation has been working with partners from Amnesty International, ACT, BYC, Changemakers, CSV, Hansard Society, Institute for Global Ethics, involver and LSN to put together a coalition in support of citizenship education.
After a lot of hard work, we’re now in a position to go public with our [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I met with Gabriela Flores at the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to discuss the projects they run for young people. They all sound fantastic, but I was particularly inspired by Young Brits at Art, a competition running now for young people aged 11 – 19.
Young Brits at Art asks [...]

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I was pleased to see that the Speaker’s Conference on Parliamentary Representation recommended in their final report (published on Monday) that in ‘England, the Department for Children Schools and Families should work with headteachers and with Ofsted to ensure that the importance of citizenship is better understood and the subject is taught with quality and [...]

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Tonight the Citizenship Foundation celebrates its 20th year with a reception at the Law Society. For the past six months or so, those of us who have been working to organise the reception have been referring to it as a ‘birthday party’.
I know many people who don’t see the point of celebrating birthdays. It’s [...]

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Citizenship education – at it’s best – prepares young people to take part in society as engaged and informed citizens. It looks to the future and asks young people: ‘what do you want the world to look like?’ and ‘what are you going to do about it?’

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