Why PSHE Coordinators choose VotesforSchools

At Primary, it can replace your PSHE scheme entirely - it covers all of statutory RSHE, so you're not running two things side by side. At Secondary, we're still building toward full statutory RSHE coverage, so for now you will still need to use some additional RSHE lessons. Either way, you're not duplicating the same ground twice.

You get a termly report showing exactly what's been taught, to which classes, and when, mapped against all six frameworks. No spreadsheet of your own required.

As your school's admin, you can also see which classes have taken part each week through the data dashboard, which will show you which groups have logged their votes.

Both, really. We'd recommend running the newest lesson each week - it's built around whatever's actually in the news, and it means your pupils' vote gets counted alongside everyone else's. But you're not locked into it. Log in and you'll find a VoteTopic library where you can browse, search and filter every lesson by curriculum aim, plus a separate Additional Packs tab for RSHE materials, awareness days, assemblies and more. Follow the weekly lessons in order and your coverage takes care of itself. Prefer to plan your own term? Every lesson pack shows exactly which curriculum criteria it meets, so you can build around that instead.

Swap it. The library's there for exactly this - if this week's lesson isn't right for a particular class, pick another from the 200+ already built rather than sitting the week out.

No. Every lesson arrives with full context and background built in, so you, or anyone covering for you, can lead a confident discussion without a week of reading first. Some secondary schools even have their pupils deliver the lessons, as everything needed truly is built in.

Every topic goes through the same six steps: pick a real-world issue, design a question that allows genuine debate, look at the full range of views (bringing in outside experts where it helps), build age-appropriate activities from reputable sources, give pupils room to reach their own conclusion, then check the finished lesson for bias in the text, the images, and the overall shape of it. We keep full editorial control throughout and don't promote any political cause.

That's exactly why full context is built into every lesson - nobody's expected to be the expert in the room, including you. And every comment pupils submit gets read by our own qualified teachers each week too, so it's never just one person watching.

In the moment, that's your existing safeguarding policy and your staff's own training - we don't step in. Behind the scenes, we read every comment weekly too. Comments are anonymous at pupil level but show the school name, so if something concerning comes up, we contact your school directly.

In practice, this is rare. For more sensitive topics you get at least two weeks' notice, so there's time to swap something in if needed. RSHE lessons specifically are marked clearly and sit in their own area of the platform - if a parent objects to one of those, that's down to your school's own RSE withdrawal policy, exactly as it would be with any other resource you use.

Yes - the SLT and governor case is built in too. There's a dedicated page covering exactly how this holds up at inspection and in a governors' report, worth sharing directly rather than making that case yourself

Yes - if part of a year group doesn't know something they should, that shows up as a filtered graph you can point to, which tends to carry more weight in a timetabling conversation than a lesson plan alone. You can find out more about the data you'll see, and how your school can use it on our Data & Reporting page.

Yes - we write all of our lessons with accessibility in mind, and carefully choose our syntax to ensure that it can be understood by all levels. Schools have used it successfully with EAL classes and with pupils rebuilding confidence after exclusion, and the vote itself works fine as a simple show of hands where the online portal isn't the right fit.

Usually your SLT, since it's a budget decision - but nothing stops you starting the conversation. If you're part of a Multi-Academy Trust, we offer discounted trust-wide pricing. At the other end of the scale, we also offer discounted priving to small schools. Either way, the best next step is getting in touch so we can quote for your specific setup.