Children will be required to give a lesson of democracy in schools from the age of 11 years. Prepare them to vote at the age of 16Head of Britain election Watchdog has said.
Democratic education will be rolled out for people above 14 years of age, Vijay Rangarajan said, Chief Executive Officer, election Commission – But also said that it will need to be expanded to ensure that the young people are ready to cast their votes.
He also said Teacher To ensure that students would be asked to quit their politics at the class door to get a wide understanding of the political system, and not on the way to vote.
“And clarifying, when they have received personal views, this is just a personal idea.”
Mr. Rangarajan said that teachers would “really need good content and some guidance that you can teach this stuff well”, ensuring that there are extensive debates about confusing political issues, as well as how the system works, its mechanics.
He said, “I can see that a lot of political parties are concerned about bias, so we are spending a lot of time on the fact that we ensure that the material is really fair.”
It comes after reform UK leader Nigel Faraj claimed that the school and university are “filled with leftist bias” and “anti-reforms prejudice”.
A survey of 6,000 teachers conducted by the teacher TAPP indicated that more than 80 percent believes that the national course prepares sufficiently young people to be able to vote in 16.
Shri Rangarajan said that the government has learned a lesson from the Scottish freedom referendum, which has given the power to vote for 16- and 17 years old. But he said that democratic education was not very good at that time to support it.
He said, “The main lesson we took was very patchy in Scotland schools, so we are working on the goods of education.”
“Many teachers said,” We do not want to engage in run-up for the Scottish referendum, which was really quite sensitive. So teachers need some support. “
It was announced in July that the next general election would be able to vote for 16 -year -old children for the first time, “as part of comprehensive plans to modernize our democracy, ministers said at that time.
Labor’s manifesto partyed to reduce the age of voting to 16 for parliamentary elections to 16. But in an attempt to increase participation in the schemes, schemes declared before this heat move forward.
Ministers have proposed to introduce automated voter registration, already used in Australia and Canada, and bank cards released by the UK make an accepted form of IDs at polling stations.
The housing, communities and local government ministry said that “many people” were distracted from voting by the voter ID rules introduced by the previous government, with the Election Commission that it shows that around 750,000 people did not vote due to ID shortage.
Sir Kir Stmper said it was “important” to reduce the age of voting, as 16 -year -old children were old enough to work and “pay” through tax, so there should be an opportunity to say how they wanted to spend their money.
But a survey of 500 16- and 17-year-old children organized for ITV News by Marlin Strategy found that only half said they felt that they should be allowed to vote, and only 18 percent would definitely vote.
Labor achieved the most, with 33 percent, saying that they would return to the party, while 20 percent said that they would choose the improvement UK and 18 percent greens.
Naomi Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Best Campaign Group for Britain, said that the change was “a brave option to benefit the future generations”, and political parties urged to do more to “UK young people more to win votes”.
But in the Commons, the Orthodox Chhaya Community Minister Paul Holmes accused the government of being “disappointingly confused” about the age of the majority.
He said: “Why does this government wonder that a 16 -year -old child can vote, but cannot be allowed to buy lottery tickets, an alcoholic beverage, marriage, or going to war, or even standing in elections by standing in elections?”
