Highlights
Highlights of our 2017/18 Annual Report and Accounts include:
- 240,000 children and young people benefiting either directly through involvement in our programmes, or because we help their school to improve citizenship education
- 2,300 schools supported across the UK, with an even split between primary and secondary level
- 2,500 volunteers – often experts in professions such as the law, media, politics, and economics, many of our volunteers work directly with children and young people
- 319 events including Mock Trials, student workshops, teacher training and celebration events
- Launch of our SMSC Quality Mark, helping more than 500 schools in its first year to improve the quality of Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education
- Support for young people to gain a voice on controversial issues – including Brexit, social media, and migration
- Expansion of our Experts in Schools programme to include legal experts, economic experts, media experts, and politics
- Launch of our Democracy Ambassadors programme, to training 1000 young people aged 13-16 to talk to their peers about democracy in a way that makes sense to them
- Campaigning for better citizenship education, including our support for a ten-year vision for public legal education
