What initiatives that encourage people to stand for election to school boards it has supported in each of the last five years.

In 1997, 1999 and 2001 we produced and distributed some 700,000 election publicity leaflets to local authorities for circulation to parents of school pupils in Scotland in order to promote parental involvement in school board elections. These distributions coincided with elections for vacancies for parent members on school boards. In 2001 we produced a poster to accompany the leaflets. In 2000 the School Boards (Scotland) Act 1988 was amended to allow for a simpler election process to encourage more people to stand for election.