Accord is a wide coalition of organisations, including religious groups, humanists, trade unions and human rights campaigners. We share a common view on many issues to do with state-funded schools and believe that the current legislation on faith schools in particular is counter-productive.
We campaign to make admissions and recruitment policies in all state-funded schools free from discrimination on grounds of religion or belief.
We want schools to follow an objective, fair and balanced syllabus for education about religious and non-religious beliefs.
We want accountability under a single inspection regime for Religious Education, Personal, Social & Health (PSHE) education and Citizenship.
We believe all schools should provide their pupils with inclusive, inspiring and stimulating assemblies in place of compulsory acts of worship.
The number of pupils studying Religious Education at GCSE in England has fallen again this year, part of a worrying long-term decline in the take up of the subject.
A Church of England academy trust is facing fresh pressure regarding its treatment of a former head teacher, following two public bodies having dismissed various misconduct allegations that the trust filed regarding their former member of staff.
The lead official tasked with scrutinising the safeguarding of children by public bodies in Hackney has told The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse this week that a systemic culture of resistance is preventing authorities from regulating numerous yeshivas in the London borough.
Liverpool's school systems in one of the most religiously selective in Britain and its City Council is to now investigate ways that local admission policies disadvantage children from ethnic minority backgrounds.
The Council of Europe’s Commissioner on Human Rights has warned that sexuality education in schools across Europe, including the UK, is under serious threat from the rise of 'disinformation campaigns'.