I was just looking at this:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/participationandlearning/index.asp
It’s the particiaption element of the new curriculum that will be in force in Scotland from 2014 (although is being widely used/built up to already).
The document is interesting. Also talks a lot about how there are structures other than school councils, but then quite a number of these appear to be school councils that have been given a different name. It seems there is a real problem with calling something a ‘school council’, that it somehow implies that it’s not interesting, innovative, etc.
What can we do about this?