Two separate reports released yesterday (18 September) recommend that all secondary schools should be legally obliged to have a school council. Government-commissioned research, carried out by the Institute of Education, say the government should require all maintained secondary schools to have a school council and primary schools should be "strongly encouraged" to have one. The researchers also say head teachers should involve school councils in teaching and behaviour policies, as well as with decisions about school facilities.
In addition, in-depth research by the University of Birmingham, commissioned by Schools Councils UK of eight schools over a three-year period, has said that they should have a central role, and not just a consultative one, in helping to formulate and create policy.
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