RRSA Membership

The Rights Respecting Schools Award is a membership programme with an annual subscription charge.

The subscription is determined by pupil numbers and reduces after schools have achieved full rights respecting recognition, at Gold. In some nations, territories and LAs, the costs to schools may be covered – please see below.

Membership provides all the support that schools need to succeed in becoming Rights Respecting, including: Online training and workshops, e-Learning, resources and guidance materials, support from your Professional Adviser, accreditation visits and access to our annual conference. You can learn more about what membership includes and what are our charges are here and read more about the impact of being a rights respecting school here. If your school is not yet registered for the Rights Respecting Schools Award, and you wish to join, you can register here

If your school is a state funded primary or secondary school in Scotland, London (state funded schools only) or any school in Jersey, Guernsey, Manchester (schools under Manchester City council only), Cardiff or Cornwall – please tick the relevant box on the registration form and your subscription for the coming year will be covered.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with [email protected]. 

If your school registered for RRSA prior to 2022 and has not yet paid an annual subscription you can set up a direct debit using:

• this form if your schools has already achieved Gold: Rights Respecting

or

• this form if you’re at registration, Bronze or Silver

If you are unable to pay by direct debit please email [email protected]

If you’re a school already registered for the RRSA in Scotland (state funded primary or secondary schools only),  London (state funded schools only), Jersey, Guernsey, Manchester (schools under Manchester City council only), Cardiff,  or Cornwall  – no action is needed, please access training and continue to make progress with the programme utilising the other membership benefits as needed.  For advice please contact your local Professional Adviser. You can find their details here.

Do you ever take an Award away from a school?

The Rights Respecting Schools Award is based on nationally agreed standards and uses a system of assessment that looks at all aspects of the school’s life and work. Similarly to other inspection processes the accreditation is made on the evidence seen during the assessment visit. Individual situations and experiences outside the assessment process cannot, on their own, determine the school’s accreditation as Rights Respecting but we do take concerns seriously.

If a Rights Respecting school experiences an event or circumstances that put it at odds with its Rights Respecting status (at either Silver or Gold) the Programme Director may ask that the school be reaccredited sooner than the three-year life of the Award. This would be done to support the school at a difficult time and, out of respect to all our other schools, to maintain the consistency and status of the RRSA. In exceptional circumstances we reserve the right to suspend an Award.

This approach has been approved by our Schools Accreditation and Standards Committee and this is made clear to schools at the time they are awarded Silver or Gold.