A Gateshead school has become one of around 600 schools across the UK to receive an award from UNICEF.
Eslington Primary School has been awarded Gold by UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools programme. UNICEF is an agency of the United Nations dedicated to the welfare of children with branches in 190 countries.
In November 2022, a Rights Respecting Advocate visited Eslington to assess the work staff and students do to embed children’s rights into the school’s practice and ethos. The report found that "the pupils at Eslington are living and breathing the rights-respecting approach".