St Helens Council has revealed that it finds it 'very difficult' to engage with local Catholic schools about sex education and hopes new statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance will provide it with a platform to better work with the schools.
A new survey has found that a majority of the public think the common practice of families attending Church to get their child into a religiously affiliated school is 'unacceptable'.
The Accord Coalition has urged the Isle of Man Government to renegotiate its current proposal to co-locate a religiously discriminatory Church of England school on the same sight as an inclusive community school.
Accord has urged that schools be required to promote an acceptance of transgendered people following comments to teachers by Cardinal Vincent Nichols that discourage the acceptance of transgendered people.
The Accord Coalition has welcomed the Government's new integration strategy, but urged it to tackle discriminatory and segregatory faith schools.
