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 Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education has welcomed Department for Education proposals announced today for local authorities to maintain a register of local children who do not attend a school.
A new Sutton Trust study has found faith schools are among the most socio-economically selective schools and warned against Government plans to open fully segregationist schools.
The Welsh Government is seeking to ensure the local authority committees which monitor and determine the RE taught in most state funded schools include non-religious representatives and promote the teaching of non-religious world views.
The Accord Coalition has criticised the Government's proposed new Relationships and Sex Education guidance for providing a green light to primary schools to ignore LGBT content and for allowing faith schools to ignore other religious perspectives.