ABSTRACT

By the time I finally met Hayley in the flesh we had corresponded via email for some time. After my initial meeting with the head teacher, Hayley had been nominated my chaperone and first point of contact for ‘anything cooperative’. I had already ‘officially’ visited the school on a number of occasions and was keen to develop a more informal relationship that would enable me to finally spend some time with the students and gain a deeper insight into how ‘stakeholder voice’ was understood within the ‘business as usual’ of the school.