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.
A new report has found parents attending religious services to be the most common 'ethically dubious' strategy employed by families in England to secure admission to a preferred school.
The Accord Coalition has urged the political parties at Westminster to broadly support and enact the vision set out today in the final report from the Commission on Religious Education.
Accord Chair, the Reverend Stephen Terry, has addressed the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group this week about making faith schools more inclusive.