Rights Respecting
For further information on Rights Respecting Schools in D&G, please contact Laura.Caven@dumgal.gov.uk
PL Sways
D&G RRSA Training SWAYs
This suite of Rights Respecting Schools Awards training Sways provide practitioners in schools with an introduction to Rights Respecting Schools as well as ongoing support through the stages of Award; Bronze, Silver and Gold.
An Introduction to Rights Respecting Schools (office.com)
RRSA – An Introduction to Rights Respecting Schools
Silver – Rights Respecting Schools – Supporting you on your Journey
Supporting you on your Journey – Rights Respecting Schools GOLD
A second suite of Rights Respecting Schools Awards training Sways have been created to support ELC settings both local authority and PVI providers.
RRSA- Rights Based Approach in the Early Years
RRSA- Rights Based Approach in the Early Years including the Rights Respecting Schools Award
Other PL
RRSA Spotlight is a monthly continuing professional development resource.
This resource is designed for use in staff meetings or training sessions and to support staff within schools to learn more about children’s rights, the Strands and Outcomes of the Rights Respecting Schools Award and reflect on their own practice. This resource is not intended for use with students.
The RRSA Conference 2025, focused on best practice approaches to inclusion and navigating the tensions between securing the rights of each individual child alongside the rights of the wider school community.
Keynote speaker in this year’s conference was Professor Laura Lundy, from Queen’s University Belfast, who discussed themes from her co-authored paper ‘Children, classrooms and challenging behaviour: do the rights of the many outweigh the rights of the few?’. The paper offers a rights-informed approach and a model to consider responses to some of the conflicts impacting relationships and access to education in schools.
Conference attendees also heard from Carol Robinson, Professor of Children’s Rights at Strathclyde University, who is leading a research project exploring the impact of RRSA on inclusion in schools.
The conference concluded with a panel of school RRSA leaders in conversation with Programme Director, Martin Russell, on how children’s rights and a Rights Respecting approach has informed their work on inclusion within a range of settings.
Recordings of all of these are now available here; Conference 2025 – Rights Respecting Schools Award
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