How it works

Digital Surgeries are designed to save time for teachers and politicians. We know how busy both can be, so we want to make engagement simple and easy. The programme takes four teaching hours to deliver: three hours of workshops and one for the Digital Surgery. Our training and support enables students and politicians to get the most out of every interaction. It ensures that teachers can deliver surgeries with their students with confidence and go on to make surgeries part of their everyday teaching.

Train to become an expert digital facilitator through our Digital Surgeries CPD

We train teachers to prepare and support students to engage digitally with their elected representatives. Teachers will be supported to design a scheme of work for students from our specialised resources and trained to be expert digital facilitators. 

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Use our resources to deliver workshops to your students

Teachers deliver three hours of preparatory workshops. These can be delivered to suit the school in either a drop-down day or integrated into the timetable. The programme can be easily integrated into everyday teaching as part of Citizenship or A Level Government and Politics, and aligns with requirements on Prevent, Fundamental British Values and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development (SMSC).

Our main Digital Surgery programme gives students an introduction to British politics, but you can also deliver a range of Thematic Programmes on other topics.

Deliver first-class digital surgeries with local, regional, national politicians that represent your school

Teachers deliver a Digital Surgery, connecting their students with a local, regional or national politician via Teams, Zoom or a similar platform. We provide support for each Digital Surgery and help to capture the interactions for social channels and other promotional content.

Track any “pledges” that politicians make to your students

When politicians offer to do something on behalf of the students we log it as a “Pledge” and help the politician to communicate the outcome with the school.

you can see some recent pledges here →

Stay connected and join the Digital Surgeries Network

Once trained our teachers join our Digital Surgeries Network, with many choosing to come on to our Digital Surgeries Subscription and continue to deliver the programme. We offer a range of new opportunities and training to this network.