About Leducate
About Leducate Meet the Team Patrons and Partners
Leducate is an educational charity founded by six people with a passion for the law, that aims to promote an understanding of everyday legal rights among secondary school-aged students in England and Wales.
We help young people by:
INFORMING THEM ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES
EMPOWERING THEM IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR RIGHTS
ENABLING THEM TO BECOME THRIVING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY
ENCOURAGING THEM TO EXPLORE CAREERS IN LAW
We live in an increasingly legalised world, which means that day to day life is more complicated for the average citizen who might not have an understanding of the legal protections and obligations they face.
Leducate believes that education is the key to social mobility. It enables students to integrate better in society and their wider communities. Empowering young people with knowledge of their rights and responsibilities in everyday situations can change their future; it can divert some away from a path of debt, prison or social services dependency. Understanding not just what the rules are, but why they exist, can help to limit confrontations with the law. Exploring why and how the law underpins society’s functioning instills an appreciation of the law, democracy and society as a whole.
Where We Fit In?
Leducate tackles public legal education in three separate programmes:
1. Core ‘Leducation’ - The provision of classroom-based interactive curriculum resources and training to secondary school teachers to enable them to teach everyday legal rights and responsibility to students in “Citizenship/PSHE” curriculum time.
2. Inspire - Our programme focussing on the wider legal interest while also bringing the ‘Leducation’ programme to life with relevant guest speakers or interactive trips. Guest speakers may include legal or non-legal professionals (police officers, social workers, judges or lawyers) speaking to legal matters from a general interest or specific-issue basis. Trip locations could include parliament, the Supreme Court or more local court centres and prisons.
3. Aspire - Our programme specifically focussing on students who are aiming to either study law at university or pursue law-based careers. This will include both direct and partner events focussing on interview-technique, CV drafting and enrichment, mentoring opportunities and any internships we can arrange with any external partners we have signed up.
Our Curriculum
Our curriculum aims to make the law more accessible than it has ever been, focussing on day to day legal scenarios that reflect the situations young people will find themselves in - using the most interactive and engaging methods available.
Since teachers know their students best, Leducate provides curriculum resources and tailored training packages to enable them to deliver high quality legal education to their students in their own classrooms.
They will learn the answers to questions like:
What is a tenancy agreement?
What are my rights under an employment contract?
What are my tax paying responsibilities?
What are my rights if I am arrested?
What does it mean to have consumer rights?
What are my human rights?
Armed with this knowledge, they can feel confident enough to hold local government decision-makers to account, enforce their rights against big corporations and rogue landlords, and understand their civic rights and responsibilities enough to effectively participate in a society that they feel supports them.
We passionately believe that empowering young people with an understanding of the law will change their attitude towards it, and support their journey into becoming informed, active members of society as adults.