Forms and Guides
Silver: Rights Aware
Here are the forms and guides you will need to work towards Silver: Rights Aware.
Please read our step-by-step guidance for more information on what you need to do to achieve your Silver: Rights Aware accreditation.
If you have any queries, or would like further advice and support, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the RRSA Team at [email protected] or your regional Professional Adviser.
For a school to achieve the Silver accreditation, it must have evidence that it has reached the three strands of a Rights Respecting School at Silver. A school uses these strands and other guidance provided to plan and monitor progress.
Download Strands and Outcomes
This checklist gives a succinct overview of what a school must do to achieve Silver: Rights Aware, the second stage of the Award.
Please complete and send this form to your Professional Adviser when you wish to take your Silver Accreditation.
The accreditation visit programme template provides a suggested programme for the online accreditation visit by a UNICEF UK assessor(s). Read all about the Silver: Rights Aware accreditation process here.
The School Evaluation: Silver is used to evidence a school’s progress towards meeting the outcomes for the Silver: Rights Aware accreditation. Schools need to complete the form when they feel ready for their Silver accreditation visit.
The purpose of the evidence pack is to give us a feel for your school and show us some of what we would usually see if we were physically visiting your school and viewing your physical evidence file.
We have produced the guidance below and a template evidence pack to help you bring your evidence together.
- Please be selective – you do not need to send us everything as most of the accreditation process and subsequent report is based on what you, your colleagues and your pupils tell us during the virtual visit.
- Provide the evidence in a single PowerPoint deck (or similar presentation tool) with sections for Strand A, B, C.
- Have a contents page slide for each strand. In your PowerPoint deck (or similar presentation) please aim to include a maximum of 2 or 3 pieces of evidence for each outcome (there are 9 outcomes of the award) with a maximum of 30 slides in total.
- Feel free to include hyperlinks to useful information on your website.
- The evidence should be linked to what you write in your evaluation form so we can cross reference.
- Please ensure we can see the detail on photographs of displays and ensure you are following your child protection policies when sharing photographs and videos.
- We need to receive the evidence at least two weeks before the accreditation visit and earlier if possible.
- Do involve the pupils in your steering group to help create the evidence presentation if you can.
- Quotes from parents are useful as we often don’t get a chance to speak to them at the virtual visit.
- Short video clips or voice overs are welcome.
- Examples of children’s work on rights are useful and can be photographed and added to the evidence presentation.
We will delete all materials sent after the accreditation report is completed.
Download questionnaires and guidance here
Download supplementary guidance for the Accessible questionnaires here
HOW TO SHARE THE DATA WITH US
Approximately six weeks ahead of your agreed visit date, your Professional Adviser will provide you with access to a portal to upload the data. Please ensure that you add your data promptly and accurately to help support our programme-level analysis of the experiences and outcomes of pupils attending RRSA schools.
Online questionnaires (recommended): All versions of the questionnaire can be set up online using:
- This link for the questionnaires for Primary, Secondary pupils and Staff
- This link for the pupil questionnaire: Accessible and Adult Observations versions
Findings templates:
Hardcopies: if you would prefer a hardcopy (Word versions) can be found in the guidance documents above.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO DO THE QUESTIONNAIRES?
These questionnaires have a dual purpose:
- They provide schools with a standard approach to take stock of their RRSA progress with pupils and staff at key points
- They provide data for our wider evaluation.
We will use this data for our own evaluation purposes to help ensure that we are having a positive impact on the lives of children. We analyse the data across schools we work with to identify the difference the RRSA makes for children. You can see how we use this information by looking at our impact reports. You may also find it useful to read The RRSA Theory of Change which explains our vision of change for children and schools.
Our evaluation findings are shared with a range of stakeholders who are interested in RRSA – such as schools, local authorities and current or potential funding partners.
London Schools
From April 2025, all London schools are required to use these questionnaires, as part of our funding from the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). This data will be aggregated across schools by UNICEF UK into regular reports, which will be provided to the VRU to monitor and evaluate the impact of RRSA. This supports the wider monitoring and evaluation of activities to support their London Inclusion Charter. It is not being collected to assess individual school performance.
From August 2026, questionnaires will be mandatory for all schools.
