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Survey reveals students feel less listened to

Our survey of 23,000 students shows that, between Year 3 and Year 11, they experience a 30% decline in their sense of being "listened to" around teaching and learning.

This is despite the 2004 Children Act giving children and young people a right to have a voice in their schools, and Ofsted's 2005 framework requiring schools to:

• provide evidence of how they gather the views of learners
• show how they have taken action based on these views.

Students tell us that the structures and systems set up to collect their views involve too few people and have little chance of making meaningful changes to school life. The students taking part are often the most articulate, intelligent and well-behaved. The rest then feel there is little point in even being interested.


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