Submitted on Thursday 28th July 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Make Human Rights’ education a compulsory component in the PSHE curriculum
Human Rights are some of the most fundamental and essential components in creating a society that embodies dignity, equality and respect.
Therefore, human rights education should be added into the curriculum as a compulsory element, so every young person receives equal education surrounding this.
This would be based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, so the most essential information is taught.
School is a place where the foundation of knowledge is established, hence it makes sense to provide children with the essential information they need about their human rights. In the news, we have seen disturbing cases of people’s rights being abused, in some cases without their knowledge. This has had a detrimental impact, not only on those effected directly, but on a larger scale.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Schools are already required to teach students about human rights as part of citizenship education, at key stage 4.
You can read the citizenship programmes of study for key stages 3 and 4 here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study-for-key-stages-3-and-4
We could accept a petition calling for changes to national curriculum content on human rights - for example calling for this to be taught at all ages - but it would need to be clear what changes you wanted.
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