Hampshire County Council in the UK has been working for 4 years with a large proportion of its 560 schools on Rights, Respect and Responsibilities (RRR). This work encourages children to understand that they have the rights set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and that they have the responsibility to respect the rights of others. Doing this work changes schools and sometimes their communities. Schools are better places where children learn more and behave better because they see why they should. RRR is spreading across many other parts of the UK, through a partnership with Unicef, and has assisted the development of similar programmes in other parts of the world as far apart as Ireland and New Zealand.

John is Deputy Director　of Children's Services - Education and Inclusion, for Hampshire County Council in the UK,　with particular responsibility for improving educational outcomes, including across the County Council's 560 schools. He began his career and spent 15 years as a secondary teacher, followed by 10 years with Suffolk County Council.　　　

Before joining　Hampshire County Council in 1997, John worked as an education consultant in a number of areas, both nationally and internationally, including with Ofsted, Cambridge University, Secondary Heads Association, and other government bodies. John has overseen the work in Hampshire on Rights,　Respect and　Responsibilities (RRR) since it began there in 2003. Last year, he was invited by the　New Zealand Human Rights Commission to launch their new publication 'Building Human Rights in Education Communities’.