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Hands up if you're really listening - full report

Find out about the various significant factors that influence how student consultation is established. This research report covers the scope of student activities, attitudes of senior leaders, teachers and students and logistical difficulties.

This research report draws on relevant literature and the attitudes and beliefs of senior leaders, teachers and students from four secondary school settings in order to identify those barriers that might exist to limit or prevent effective student consultation from taking place.

Approaches and practical methods of overcoming these barriers identified that the attitude of the head and their unequivocal and vocal support is seen as being fundamental to establishing successful student voice in a secondary setting.

Finally, this report suggests that schools who have successfully overcome all or many of these barriers feel that working collaboratively enables a more efficient and effective approach for those schools seeking to introduce or to extend their student consultation activities.

A summary of this report is also available.