The Education and Skills Select Committee's report Citizenship Educationdescribes councils' current support for the subject as "patchy" eventhough it could help achieve the Every Child Matters outcomes.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman and committee member StephenWilliams said: "A good citizenship programme gives children theopportunity to discuss topical, and even controversial, issues that willprepare them for full and active participation in life afterschool."
- www.parliament.uk.
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