Welcome to your vote week

The Electoral Commission have a range of resources to help you get involved with Welcome To Your Vote week, which runs from 30 January – 5 February 2023. They want to show young people that politics and democracy impacts everything around them, from how long they stay in education to the rules of renting, from 5G availability to how often bins are collected. 

Discussing these topics, and encouraging young people to think about how they can make their voices heard, can help them to become engaged voters and citizens for years to come. 

To help you run workshops, lessons, events or assemblies, they have free, impartial lesson plans, classroom activities, videos and quizzes, each supporting you and your young people to discuss democracy, politics and their vote. Access the resources here and you can also sign up to their newsletter for educators to be the first to hear more about their plans and new resources.