A legal challenge supported by a faith-based campaign coalition that opposes compulsory sex education has been rejected by the High Court.
A legal challenge supported by a faith-based campaign coalition that opposes compulsory sex education has been rejected by the High Court.
The Accord Coalition has extended its thanks to the Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Kate Green OBE MP, and the Liberal Democrat’s Education Spokesperson and Deputy Leader, Daisy Cooper MP, for having recently met with members of its governing Steering Committee.
Accord has welcomed growing seriousness with which various public agencies are treating significant rule breaking by independent schools, but urges for legislative changes to close regulatory loopholes that some of the schools are exploiting.
The Accord Coalition has asked the Church of England’s new Anti-Racism Taskforce to raise awareness of how religious selection of pupils by some Church Schools is dividing and privileging families on the grounds of race, to help ensure Church authorities tackle the issue and better advance racial equality.
The Government has lent its approval to a new faith-based secondary free school in the town of Soham, in East Cambridgeshire, against the wishes of the local County Council.
