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 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has published its report into how Catholic authorities in England and Wales have dealt with child sexual abuse and offered a range of damning conclusions.
The UK Government has slashed the grants it provides to trainee secondary school teachers across a range of subjects, including RE, despite a long standing shortage of RE specialists in schools.
The Accord Coalition has urged the Government to do more to defend schools and education authorities from attack for upholding their equality duties, as Ofsted continues to defend its expectations around sex education and LGBT inclusivity.
Three Bridges Primary School has taken first place in this year’s Accord Inclusivity Award for its efforts to ‘decolonize’ heavy White and Western bias across its curriculum.
An employment tribunal has this week rejected a claim by a Christian former school worker that they were religiously discriminated against after being sacked for homophobic and transphobic comments.