Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of including The Countryside Code in the National Curriculum.

The department does not plan to make an assessment of including the Countryside Code in the national curriculum.

All state-funded schools have the flexibility within their school curriculum to teach about the Countryside Code, through for example:

• Citizenship, which teaches young people about their responsibilities as adults and includes opportunities for active citizenship, for example, forms of volunteering to support a cause or their local community.
• Science, where children are taught about the scientific concepts that relate to the environment.
• Geography, as part of fieldwork and the teaching of key aspects of physical geography such as land use.