Every Pupil Gets A Voice
Most schools use their School Council to give pupils a voice, but a common complaint we hear is that the voice only seems to go to the same six pupils who put themselves forward for the role.
With VotesforSchools, every pupil gets a vote, and a voice.
And when everyone gets a say instead of the usual six, what they say reaches people who can actually act on it.
Every week, thousands of pupils vote as part of their VotesforSchools lesson. This voice allows us to make real changes happen.
For example, when we asked "Should schools have active uniforms?", the results didn't stay in the classroom. The Youth Sport Trust used the data in their own report on active uniforms. That fed into the Culture, Media & Sport Committee's Game On inquiry - which recommended the government push for more active uniform policies in schools nationally.
Your pupils cited in a Government review. Your pupils speaking at Parliament to share their views. Your pupils appearing on Children United Today's TV programme. These are just a few ways that you can use VotesforSchools to amplify your pupils' voices.
Thanks to an ongoing collaboration to get young people's voices heard, our results now regularly feature on Children United Today's news programme. But that's not all: In July 2026, we contacted all of our schools to see if any were brave enough to take part in a social experiment with Sky Kids Investigates. Check out the documentary below to see the results.
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"Would you use a local youth space?" collected 57,000 pupil votes. That data was submitted as evidence to the DCMS's National Youth Strategy consultation - which announced £500 million for youth clubs in December 2025.
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Not only do pupils have an opportunity to make their voices heard, they also get a real response. When over 45,000 pupils voted on our knife crime topic, Commander Stephen Clayman, the National Policing Lead for Knife Crime and National Knife Crime Centre, responded directly with this video.
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