News
The latest news about the Rights Respecting Schools Award and stories from schools working to put Rights Respecting values at the heart of their practice.
Essential skills for the digital age: Safer Internet Day 2017
Safer Internet Day on 7 February 2017 provided a great opportunity for UK schools to explore rights online and raise awareness of internet safety issues.
Special schools: advocates and ambassadors for children’s rights
Over 250 special schools in the UK are on their rights respecting journey, reaching more than 26,500 children and young people.
The Champions of Sandfield School
A group of young people from the Rights Respecting Sandfield Park School, are breaking down the barriers that disabled young people face.
Your feedback and improvements for 2017
For 2017 and beyond we'll look at how we can help schools increase progress on their RRSA journey and consider a blended learning approach to our training.
The importance of child rights education after Brexit
Every effort should be made to see that children’s rights aren’t weakened after Brexit, writes Katy Brown, Projects Officer for Child Rights Launchpad.
Training teachers in Iceland about the Rights Respecting Schools Award
Rights Respecting Schools Programme Director Frances Beastly recently visited Iceland to train teachers in implementing children’s rights in school.
Taking children’s rights out of the classroom
A rights respecting school in London has used the Unicef refugee crisis teaching resource to apply children's rights outside of the classroom.
Empowering children to keep safe online: Internet safety workshops with BT
Today, BT and Unicef UK celebrated our 300th workshop on internet safety with a special event at the BT Tower.
Scottish school children learn about their rights with the Child Rights Launchpad
Unicef's Katy Brown met with school children in Scotland who are using Child Rights Launchpad, a free interactive website for children to learn about their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
