ABSTRACT
The government had accepted the recommendations of the advisory group set out between the bright red covers of what became popularly known as the Crick Report.1 Crick had recommended that citizenship education should become an entitlement for all pupils and that it should have statutory force, particularly in secondary schools. The Report had further proposed that as far as possible citizenship education should be left to teachers to develop and deliver against a simple list of learning outcomes for each age group. This was in marked contrast with other statutory subjects where the programmes of study are far more prescriptive and detailed about precisely what should be taught and learnt.
