I. Stephanie Boyce FKC, FRSA: “The new curriculum will see schools teaching pupils about tackling misinformation, budgeting, mortgages, climate change and expanded citizenship lessons.”

“To equip our children for the world to come”.

Today’s announcement by the government marks the first major change to the national curriculum in ten years. The new curriculum will see schools teaching pupils about tackling misinformation, budgeting, mortgages, climate change and expanded citizenship lessons.

These are valuable and necessary additions, but the teaching of law has been overlooked.

If we are to equip our young people for the world to come, they must understand the laws that shape their lives, their rights and responsibilities, and how democracy functions. Knowledge of the law builds analytical thinking, critical reasoning, and civic engagement, skills essential not only to individual empowerment but to the health of our democracy.

The review panel led by Becky Francis has missed a crucial opportunity to embed legal literacy in education and to ensure that every pupil leaves school able to navigate, question and contribute to the society they will inherit.

Until pupils are taught the fundamentals of law, we will continue to ask them to participate in democracy without giving them the tools to truly understand it.

#LegalEducation #Democracy #Leadership #AccessToJustice

#CivicEngagement #LawForAll #SocialJustice

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