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 UK Government has this week published a data audit to 'reveal racial disparities and help end the burning injustices many people experience across Britain'.
Fulham Boys School in London has demanded that a Rastafarian pupil has their dreadlocks cut off because they break the school's uniform and appearance policy.
The Commission on Religious Education has recommended that pupils at all state funded schools should be entitled to learn about a range of religious and non-religious.