Working Towards

Inform the whole school community. Display your RRSA Bronze logo and certificate, hold an assembly and use your school newsletter and social media to let families know. 

This training focuses on developing your understanding of the CRC and children’s rights, providing ideas and resources to explore key elements of the Outcomes framework and prepare for Silver accreditation. 

Download and complete the Silver Accreditation Booking form to agree a provisional date for your visit with your Professional Adviser. You will have been given an estimated timescale for accreditation in your Bronze confirmation email.  We expect schools to take a maximum of 2 years to progress from Bronze to Silver. 

Implement Silver action plan as outlined in your Bronze Application form. Adapt the plan as necessary during its progression; for example, additional actions or ideas may arise from Achieving Silver training. Hold regular meetings with the steering group to ensure their engagement and participation in the delivery of the plan.  

Check out our Achieving the Outcomes, SEN, Early Years and Secondary guidance for further ideas.   

Staff will be building their confidence  to know what it means to teach and learn ABOUT rights, THROUGH rights and FOR rights. They will be starting to link articles to lessons and be referencing them in discussion.  Encourage colleagues to share good practice and use staff meeting time to gather information about how the Convention is being promoted  across school.  This will provide useful evidence for your evaluation form.    

Remember we have a created a range of Spotlight CPD resources that can be used in school.  

Start to complete the School Evaluation: Silver with support from your Steering Group and colleagues.   

In doing this identify: 

• How each of the 9 outcomes has been achieved? 

• What difference has been made? 

• What evidence do you have? 

You will need to submit this evaluation form at least two weeks before your Silver Accreditation visit. 

As you identify evidence in your evaluation form, start to populate your evidence PowerPoint. Evidence might include curriculum planning, policies, pupils’ work and assemblies so that you have an overview of the learning that is taking place and its impact. Survey findings, data and pupil, staff and parent feedback may also be useful. Please remember that we only ask for 2-3 pieces of evidence per outcome.  

It is useful to carry out pupil and staff questionnaires so that you have an overview of their current knowledge and understanding of children’s rights and the growing impact of adopting a child rights approach in school.   

Download questionnaires and guidance here

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO DO THE QUESTIONNAIRES? 

We see these questionnaires as having a dual purpose: 

1. They provide schools with a standard approach to take stock of their RRSA progress with pupils and staff at key points 

1. They provide data for our wider evaluation. 

We will use this data for our own evaluation purposes to help ensure that we are having a positive impact on the lives of children.  We analyse the data across schools we work with to identify the difference the RRSA makes for children. You can see how we use this information by looking at our impact reports. You may also find it useful to read The RRSA Theory of Change which explains our vision of change for children and schools. 

Our evaluation findings are shared with a range of stakeholders who are interested in RRSA – such as schools, local authorities and current or potential funding partners. 

London Schools 

From April 2025, all London schools are required to use these questionnaires, as part of our funding from the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). This data will be aggregated across schools by UNICEF UK into regular reports, which will be provided to the VRU to monitor and evaluate the impact of RRSA. This supports the wider monitoring and evaluation of activities to support their London Inclusion Charter. It is not being collected to assess individual school performance. 

The questionnaires are optional for schools outside London.