Youth Social Action Resource Hub

On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Overview of Teaching Lesson 1: Understand the meaning of Inclusion and Diversity Lesson 2: Focusing on discrimination and prejudice and how we are all treated differently Lesson 3 - 5: Understanding Diversity

Schools have a responsibility to tackle poverty and promote equality of opportunity. Teaching young people about poverty can empower them to understand the subject and its impact, motivating them to act within a school, community, or city. At each key stage, we have used the National Curriculum, providing links and examples of how poverty and its impact can be delivered through a range of subjects or as bespoke lessons as part of the inspire and explore steps of Youth Social Action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stages 3 and 4. It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects, the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stages 2. It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects, the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.

This curriculum map provides links to integrate the topic of Climate Change within the National Curriculum at Key Stage 1.
It can be read to obtain an overview of how Climate Change can be taught through the National Curriculum subjects and the skills needed by young people to deliver social action.  

Teaching young people about mental health and well-being is essential, as it promotes awareness and understanding. At each key stage, we have used the National Curriculum, providing links and examples of how mental health can be delivered through a range of subjects. Each key stage has 3-5 bespoke lesson plans through which the topic of mental health can be delivered as part of the inspire and inform steps of Youth Social Action. Providing the young people with a strong basis for them to link these to Social Action projects at either a local or national level.

The Advocacy Academy is an activist youth movement of young leaders fighting for justice and equality. They serve as the political home for grassroots youth organizing and the catalyst for collective action. The power of movement building is not about feeling ‘confident’ or ‘courageous’. Power is the ability to act; this is important when 88% of young people feel that their voices are completely unheard in society. They run immersive programmed to train young leaders who then continue their journey with The Advocacy Academy. Currently, there are 122 alumni.

This is a detailed guide containing everything you need to engage pupils in debates. The content includes: - Understanding debate language - Easy-to-use ideas for debate and oracy (all age groups from KS1-KS5) - Setting up Debates - Templates for . Judges . The main speakers . Researchers . Summary speakers - References and useful websites