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.
Accord has submitted written evidence to an Education Commission organised by The Times newspaper, which seeks to push education policy up the political agenda.
The Accord Coalition has criticised the UK Government for placating divisive faith school sponsors whilst ignoring the needs of England’s increasingly religiously diverse society.
New opinion poll findings released today have found that Religious Education continues to be perceived as an important part of the school curriculum in the UK's religiously diverse society.
A Private Members Bill seeking to replace the laws demanding daily worship in community schools, with instead a requirement for religiously inclusive assemblies, has passed its House of Lords second reading.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has today published damning findings of its investigation into the child protection practices and procedures of religious institutions in England and Wales.