Lord Glentoran, Conservative Shadow Minister for Northern Ireland and Wales & Shadow Minster for the Olympics, has put his name to the Accord campaign for inclusive schools. The peer, who has seen firsthand the problems of religious division, told us: “I have had Northern Ireland as my home since the war and have seen...
Accord is supporting a campaign to make religious education objective and balanced for which we need your help. We think that RE should teach about a wide range of different beliefs (religious and non-religious), not tell children what they ought to believe. Although all schools are legally required to teach RE, at the moment...
It’s been just over a week since Accord launched to challenge discrimination in faith schools and we’re very pleased with the way our aims have attracted support and generated debate. We have put together a summary of all the media coverage generated by the launch, but there was rather a lot so if we...
Accord Chair Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain on why he thinks the campaign is important Why would a rabbi be critical of faith schools? It is a question I get asked repeatedly, with the assumption that I am either a renegade or demented. How sad that people assume that being religious myself means I somehow...
Welcome to the website of the Accord coalition. We are a new broad-based coalition calling for inclusive schools and an end to special arrangements for state funded religious schools. It is wrong that there are schools across Britain that turn students away because of their beliefs and wrong that there are teachers denied promotion...
