Government

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF, formerly DfES)
Details of citizenship within the National Curriculum with separate pages for teachers, pupils, parents and governors, and access to

• ‘Making Sense of Citizenship: a Continuing Professional Development Handbook’:
  http://www.dfes.gov.uk/citizenship/
• Schemes of Work for Citizenship Education at Key Stages 3 and 4:
  http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/
• Guidance on the Duty to Promote Community Cohesion (from DCSF)
  http://www.publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/DCSF-00598-2007.pdf
• Learning and Skills Network (LSN) (formerly LSDA)
  News, teaching and learning materials and resources for post-16 citizenship
  www.lsneducation.org.uk/
• Qualifications and Curriculum Authority(QCA)
  Information related to citizenship and its assessment
  http://www.qca.org.uk/citizenship/ and http://www.qca.org.uk/citizenship/post-16/
• Programmes of study
  http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/subjects/citizenship/index.aspx

Alternatively, all QCA publications can be ordered direct from the QCA on: telephone: 08700 606015

Citizenship Organisations

• CitizED project, funded by the Teacher Training Agency, focusing on citizenship teacher education
  http://www.citized.info/
• Civnet
  http://www.civnet.org/

The following include resources for teachers and useful links:

• Association for Citizenship Teaching
  http://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/
• Citizenship Foundation
  http://www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/
• Education for Citizenship site (managed by Learning and Teaching Scotland)
  http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/citizenshipindex.asp
• Global Citizenship Consortium
  http://www.citizenship-global.org.uk/
• Institute for Citizenship
  http://www.citizen.org.uk/
• National Grid for Learning, Teacher Resource Exchange
  http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/server.php
• Oxfam Coolplanet for Teachers: includes resources about global citizenship issues for teachers http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/index.htm
• Save the Children: includes learning resources
  http://www.savethechildren.org.uk

To find out more about CELS please contact:

David Kerr
Project Director
d.kerr@nfer.ac.uk