Headteachers will receive guidance on how Scotland’s independence referendum should be handled impartially in the classroom, with today’s 15 and 16-year-old pupils likely to be key voters by the time of the poll in September 2014.
Education Scotland is in talks with the Electoral Commission over what advice to offer Scotland’s local authorities and headteachers on the issue, and it will be handed out this summer.
The Scottish Independence Referendum (Franchise) Bill, which gives 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote, has passed its first stage in the Holyrood Parliament.
Political analysts expect these young people to be a key demographic target for both sides of the independence debate as they are less likely to have decided on their intentions yet.
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