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 British Muslims for Secular Democracy have this week released an advice booklet to assist schools in providing Muslim children a well rounded education.
The Crown Prosecution Service has warned it is seeking more prosecutions of those running illegally unregistered schools following the first ever convictions today for this offence.
A new investigation has concluded the legal and policy framework around faith schools in England is overly deferential towards parental choice and gives too little consideration to the interests of individual pupils and wider society
A Church of England school in central London has agreed it religiously discriminated against a Rastafarian child after having been taken to court by the family.