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School councils – making them active, sustainable and fun!

To make school councils work, they need to be active and ‘doing’, sustainable and fun! Our approach to this is to help school councils become READY for ACTION: Our work aims to help schools and colleges to create smart school councils that use this model. Take a look around our resources and projects to find [...]

School council elections – planning for success!

Here’s a few tips on how to plan successful elections for your school council: School Council Elections – Planning for Success!

Newsletter 4: Cut-backs, citizenship, peer training and student voice

Hello from involver: newsletter number 4! Scottish schools are back, and there’s not too long before all the other UK schools will be too. But we know you’ve still been working hard, as have we, and this is what’s been going on: News: Student voice support is taking a beating in some LAs We’ve been [...]

School council success: improvement or representation?

What’s your school council really about? How do you measure its success? Is it by what it changes or how well it represents all pupils’ views?

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3 lessons learned as a startup social enterprise

A few reflections on starting up our social enterprise. Not to suggest that we’ve had world-beating success or anything, but we’ve learned a few important things whilst building up this organisation round a set of ideas.

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