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Changing Perspectives on Citizenship

From a teacher to charity worker to student; our Partnerships Executive Sophie Whitehead reflects on her time as a teacher and explains why Citizenship teaching is a crucial part of education.
8 Ways to Improve Social Action in Your Primary School

Ideas and inspiration for #iWill week 2018 to develop social action and community involvement in primary schools. Read on...
Ten year vision for Public Legal Education launched at Parliament

Young Citizens has joined forces with the Solicitor General's Office and many other organisations to lay out a new ten year vision for a legally literate population, where people understand both their rights and responsibilities.
Education for effective citizens: has it ever been more important?

With increased uncertainty around our place in Europe and continued economic instability, Citizenship as a secondary school subject has never been so important.

Changing Perspectives on Citizenship

From a teacher to charity worker to student; our Partnerships Executive Sophie Whitehead reflects on her time as a teacher and explains why Citizenship teaching is a crucial part of education.
8 Ways to Improve Social Action in Your Primary School

Ideas and inspiration for #iWill week 2018 to develop social action and community involvement in primary schools. Read on...
Ten year vision for Public Legal Education launched at Parliament

Young Citizens has joined forces with the Solicitor General's Office and many other organisations to lay out a new ten year vision for a legally literate population, where people understand both their rights and responsibilities.
Education for effective citizens: has it ever been more important?

With increased uncertainty around our place in Europe and continued economic instability, Citizenship as a secondary school subject has never been so important.
6 ways to get your young people ‘talking democracy’

Here's my top six ways to engage and inspire young people in democratic participation.
Sir Brian Leveson asks schools to judge Mock Trial value

The Rt. Hon. Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice, says why Mock Trials matter...
Rushanara Ali MP Joins Young Citizens as an Ambassador

Rushanara Ali MP has been appointed as an Ambassador to education charity Young Citizens. She hopes to help inspire and motivate children and young people to be active citizens.
Young Citizens awarded Impact Partner status

Young Citizens is one of just six organisations to be awarded the prestigious Impact Partner status for its youth social action work.
The National SMSC Quality Mark celebrates its first birthday

Young Citizens is celebrating the first birthday of the SMSC Quality Mark! The Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (SMSC) education is a character-building platform. It provides a holistic perspective for the learner. If provision is sound, it has the potential to support children now and throughout the rest of their lives.
Alexis Amann joins as new Marketing and Communications Intern

Alexis is looking forward to working with Young Citizens and growing her experiences. Read her thoughts on the importance of citizenship and what she hopes to learn from this internship abroad.

British values

In a press release on 27 November 2014, the Department for Education told all schools to promote 'British values' and produced advice for doing so through SMSC. Here, we explain what that means for schools.
What is citizenship education?

Citizenship education is about enabling people to make their own decisions and to take responsibility for their own lives and communities. And in many countries it's becoming increasing important.
Key Stage 2 (ks2) PSHE & SMSC curriculum primary school resources

Powered by Young Citizens, Go-Givers has over 150 cross-curricular lessons to support the teaching of key stage 2(ks2) PSHE and Citizenship and develop children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) learning, including their understanding of fundamental British Values. Go-Givers also includes an extensive range features to assist primary schools in teaching PSHE, SMSC and citizenship that could be used in a scheme of work.
7. The importance of citizenship education
Go-Givers - PSHE SMSC primary school resources for key stage 1 and key stage 2

Powered by Young Citizens, Go-Givers has over 150 cross-curricular lessons to support the teaching of PSHE and Citizenship and develop children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) learning, including their understanding of fundamental British Values. Go-Givers also includes an extensive range features to assist primary schools in teaching PSHE, SMSC and citizenship that could be used in a scheme of work.
What is citizenship?

Citizens are members of a state or a nation. Citizenship is the process of being such a member. It is how we make society work, together.
Mock Trials

The Mock Trials are an effective and fun way of helping young people understand how the judicial system works. Learn how you can get involved...
Lowering the voting age to 16

Here, we give teachers a little support for debating the topic in class with students. Do young people of this age know enough about politics yet? And if they could vote, can they be trusted to do it sensibly?
British values resources for Key Stage 2

Powered by Young Citizens, Go-Givers has over 150 cross-curricular lessons to support the teaching of PSHE and Citizenship and develop children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) learning, including their understanding of fundamental British Values. Go-Givers also includes an extensive range features to assist primary schools in teaching PSHE, SMSC and citizenship that could be used in a scheme of work.
Key Stage 1 PSHE & SMSC Resources

Powered by Young Citizens, Go-Givers has over 150 cross-curricular lessons to support the teaching of PSHE and Citizenship and develop children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) learning, including their understanding of fundamental British Values. Go-Givers also includes an extensive range features to assist primary schools in teaching PSHE, SMSC and citizenship that could be used in a scheme of work.

Citizenship resource writers (voluntary)

These are voluntary roles, ideally suited to former teachers with experience of teaching citizenship or related subjects. The roles entail helping Young Citizens to research, write, and check lesson plans, assembly kits and other resources for both primary and secondary schools. Read more

I’ve just got my money back via a ‘Small Claims Court’. Would young people know they can do that?

Our CEO tells of his own recent experience of using the law to protect his rights, and explains why basic legal understanding is vitally important for all young people, if they're to be confident young citizens. Read more