Tony Blair launches Citizenship CD-ROM

The Right Hon Tony Blair MP today held a press call at the offices of Darlington Borough Council in the UK to launch a new Rotary Coping with Citizenship CD-ROM

The CD-ROM is the newest edition to the Rotary ‘Coping with Life’ series of Multimedia programmes for schools, which are available, FREE, to all schools throughout the UK and Ireland. Invited guests will receive a practical demonstration and explanation of how the CD-ROM will benefit children, parents and teachers as Citizenship becomes a fundamental part of the National Curriculum within the coming months.

The interactive CD-ROM has been backed by all the major organisations which advise the Department for Education and Skills on Citizenship issues. These include, The Institute for Citizenship, The Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education, CSV Education for Citizenship, The Citizenship Foundation, The Council for Education in World Citizenship, NCH Action for Children, The National Foundation for Educational Research and the National Family and Parenting Institute.

The Citizenship programme will cover such topics as, children’s rights, marriage, parenting and families, relationships, parental rights, social dilemmas and conflicts, crime and law, living in a multi-cultural society and global citizenship. The project is the initiative of Rotary District 1030, which covers Cleveland, Co Durham, Northumberland and Tyne & Wear, and development work has been the responsibility of local Rotarian, Colin Sawyer.

Coping with Citizenship is a national initiative. Local Rotary clubs across the UK will provide Coping with Life CD-ROMs to schools in their area at their expense. If schools or parents require additional CDs, they can be ordered directly from Colin Sawyer on 01670 813470.

January 24th, 2002