The Accord Coalition has welcomed the Final Report of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce, but urged the Church of England to evidence its commitment to racial justice by leading its schools away from operating religiously discriminatory practices that indirectly discriminate on the grounds of race.
Plans for the first Catholic school in Northern Ireland to become an integrated school have taken a major step forward due to Northern Ireland’s Education Minister having offered their formal consent for the proposal.
A local authority has agreed to reconsider its rejection of a humanist member joining its Religious Education committee after receiving a legal threat.
Inclusive education in Wales has taken a major step forward thanks to the passing by the Welsh Parliament earlier this month of the Curriculum and Assessment Bill.
Accord has updated two resources of information that it makes freely available regarding religiously divisive and discriminatory practices in the school system.
