Citizenship: Education
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to consult on the revised citizenship programmes of study.
Answered by Georgia Gould
We are revising the national curriculum following the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review. We will make citizenship compulsory in key stages 1 and 2 so that primary aged children are introduced to key content on media literacy, financial literacy, law and rights, democracy and government, and climate education. We will publicly consult on all national curriculum programmes of study from summer 2026 and fully implement the new full national curriculum for first teaching from September 2028.
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