UNICEF UK rights respecting schools campaign

Barely 20% of UK’s schools are UN Rights respecting. Starting with my own school, I am using my public presence and platforms to encourage other schools across the UK to join UNICEF UK’s rights respecting schools program.

This is enlightening thousands of other children about their rights and their schools to be champions of children’s rights.

If you are in the UK, learn more about the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools program and get your school on it unless it is already on it. Find more details below.

The Rights Respecting Schools Award puts children’s rights at the heart of school life in the UK. The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) works with schools in the UK to create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. The Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens. Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as the guide, UNICEF UK are working with more UK schools than almost any other organisation. Over 1.5 million children in the UK go to a Rights Respecting School and nearly 5,000 schools up and down the country are working through the Award. Schools work with UNICEF UK on a journey to become fully Rights Respecting. The Award recognises a school’s achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice within the school and beyond. https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/