UNICEF - Rights Respecting School Award

The Rights Respecting Schools Award puts children’s rights at the heart of schools in the UK.

The UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) works with schools in the UK to create safe and inspiring places to learn, where children are respected, their talents are nurtured and they are able to thrive. Our Rights Respecting Schools Award embeds these values in daily school life and gives children the best chance to lead happy, healthy lives and to be responsible, active citizens.

Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) as a guide, UNICEF are working with more UK schools than almost any other organisation. Over 1.6 million children in the UK go to a Rights Respecting School and nearly 5,000 schools up and down the country are working through the Award. Schools work with UNICEF on a journey to become fully Rights Respecting.

The Award recognises a school’s achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice within the school and beyond.

We had our most recent re-accreditation visit in late January 2025. The report states that Foreland Fields School ‘continues to meet the standard for UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award at Gold Level’.

There are some very pleasing comments made in the report including, a ‘caring and nurturing culture of the school that focuses on the best interest of each child’, ‘Pupil voice that is highly valued’ and ‘strong relationships with parents/carers and families’.

We are very proud of the report from UNICEF, which is attached below.

Foreland Fields School Gold Re-Accrediaton Report January 2025