Accord has welcomed the launch today of the Fair Admissions Campaign, a new single issue and ecumenical campaign focused solely on reducing and preventing state funded faith schools in England and Wales selecting pupils on the ground of religion, and the unwelcome consequences of this selection.
The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools has called for the laws that allow faith schools to discriminate on religious grounds in relation to the employment of teachers to end.
The Department for Education has announced today that a further 102 Free Schools will open in England in 2014 and beyond, 25 of which will have a faith ethos or be designated as having a religious character. There are already 81 Free Schools, while...
Professor Ted Cantle CBE, Chair of the iCoCo Foundation and a leading national expert on community cohesion and inter-cultural relations, has joined the Accord Coalition.
The Accord Coalition has called upon the Archdiocese of Westminster to reconsider its guidance about pupil admissions after non-Catholic parents at one of its schools were recently notified that their younger children may not be accepted in future.
