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DCSF Guidance Looks At How Schools Can Get Pupils To Participate –
New advice on how to get young people involved in their school and learn important citizenship skills, for example through ‘buddying’ younger pupils and encouraging them to study or improve behaviour was published today, announced Schools Minister Jim Knight.
He’s an ex-prison governor. It seems to me like Boris’ view of young people is that they are a problem for his constituents, rather than anything else.
Bit more info here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/06/boris.race
Many new teachers, as well as experiences ones, are confused about the difference between PSHE and Citizenship and where the school council fits in, and how to make the best out of their valuable curriculum time. I found this presentation which should clarify things a bit and it’s information we should really all have, it can be found on the server at S:\Information and Research\PSHE and citizenship
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Just reading a little bit from HH talking about the fact that the Diplomas that are being introduced for 14-19 year olds are apparently the responsibility of the DIUS (Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills), not the DCSF. The DCSF has repsonsibility for everything up to the age of 13, but then after that there is a great deal of shared responsibility. It seems to me that all of our current work is still focussed on the DCSF, I think we need to see if there is scope to engage with DIUS. If we want to do anything with 14-19 institutions (e.g., sixth-form colleges, FE colleges) we really have to work through DIUS as they are not under the DCSF at all (I think). Whilst this is of course frustrating and confusing it could also open up more lines of funding and more areas of work to explore.
It seems the Government is reworking BSF, as I understand it the pupil-involvement in this scheme is till weak. I think now might be a time to try to talk to the DCSF about beefing it up. Any ideas on how we should go about that?
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