On Tuesday 6th February, the Mayor launched London’s Inclusion Charter. The day was led by young people from the Young People’s Action Group who shared their aspirations for an inclusive London. The audience also heard from school students about the impact of being in a Rights Respecting School – very powerful first hand testimony of how important it was to them to know and understand their rights as set out in UNCRC. You can find the Charter here. If you scroll down the page you will be able to download the Charter. Further down the page you will find a headline report from the University of Bath research which was carried out between November and January with schools across London. Finally, at the very bottom of the page is a great short film made by the Young People’s Action Group on how they used the guiding principles to write their own Charter
At the launch, the Mayor announced that access to Rights Respecting Schools Award offered by UNICEF would be free to all state-funded education settings in London for the next four years. This is a fabulous opportunity for schools and will save those registering up to £1,500 a year (it’s normally £2 per pupil up to a maximum of £1500). In order to create a sustainable approach, we would like boroughs to establish Child Rights Schools Steering groups. You can find out more about this here.