England
Association for Teaching Citizenship (ACT)
CfBT Education Trust were charged with introducing the new secondary curriculum in English schools after September 2008. The Citizenship curriculum can be viewed by signing up at: http://www.newsecondarycurriculum.org/
CitizED is the home of the Citizenship Education Teacher Training Community
Community Service Volunteers are major providers of support for citizenship education teaching and learning
Department for Children, Schools And Families (DCSF) is the ministerial department charged with citizenship education. They sponsor the citizenship education website ‘Who Do We Think We Are?’ about identity and diversity and the recent Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum (pdf)
Hansard Society citizenship education pages
Learning Skills Network (LSN) - Post 16 Citizenship Support Programme
National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) is the organisation charged with investigating and researching education. The latest Citizenship research is the CELS report (pdf) - the biggest and longest-running study about the impact of citizenship education anywhere in the world
Ofsted are the government body charged with quality assurance in education
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) (citizenship pages)
Ireland
Civic, Social and Political Education:
Amnesty Ireland CSPE page
Association of CSPE Teachers (ACT)
Politics and Society - Proposed Senior Cycle Curriculum:
National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NCCA) (Includes the draft syllabus, and reports of consultations)
Report on Ubuntu Network discussion on draft syllabus (pdf)
General:
Democracy Commission report ‘Democratic Citizenship Education in Ireland’ by Dr. Clodagh Harris (pdf)
Task Force on Active Citizenship
Northern Ireland
Click on ‘Learning for Life and Work’ to access the ‘Local and Global Citizenship’ strand, as well as ‘Employability’, ‘Personal Development’ and ‘Home Economics’ (the latter only at KS3); also both KS3 and 4 the guidance materials, statutory requirements and information on Thinking Skills
Scotland
Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People
Wales
Welsh Assembly Government pages on Personal and Social Education (which includes elements of citizenship/values education)
Information and support for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC), a cross-curricular requirement for schools in Wales
Cyfanfyd - National network of organisations promoting ESDGC
CEWC-Cymru - An educational charity that helps young people in Wales develop as active citizens. Provides events and workshops for students, as well as training and support for teachers
World Education Centre – a development education centre based in Bangor University