”The children now feel they are listened to,” says Sue Cox, the council ‘link’ teacher. “We are giving them the responsibility, and letting them have a say - as long as it is a need, and not just a want. As a school we needed to look at issues to do with behaviour and responsibility; we have a minority of pupils with very low self-esteem, who do not see how they fit into the world. Citizenship education has made them begin to address things they would not have done before, and it is building their self-esteem.”