BROWSE
- Annual Reports
- Collective Worship
- Guidance for religious believers visiting schools
- SMSC Development
- Databank of Places of Worship
- Inter Faith Dialogue
- Information About SACRE
- Key Religious Education Website Links
- Kingston Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education
- National Framework for Religious Education
- Religious Education Annual Lecture
- SACRE Meeting Agendas and Minutes
- Self Evaluation in Religious Education
- SACRE development plan
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Religious Education
Religious Education
Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education
Every Local Education Authority (LEA) is required by law to have a SACRE. It's origins go back to the Education Act of 1944, but the Education Reform Act 1988 and the Education Act 1996 strengthened its place in an LEA. The responsibilities of SACRE are:
- to provide advice to the LEA on all aspects of its provision for RE in its schools (this does not include Voluntary Aided Schools)
- to decide whether the LEA's Agreed Syllabus for RE needs to be reviewed and to require the LEA does so.
- to provide advice to the LEA on Collective Worship in its schools (this does not include Voluntary Aided or Voluntary Controlled Schools).
- to consider any requests from Headteachers to hold Collective Worship that is not of a broadly Christian character.
- to advise on matters relating to training for teachers in RE and Collective Worship.
This site provides access to the various activities that the SACRE undertaken eg Annual Reports, Annual Lectures, RE Syllabus, Agenda and Minutes and the Databank of Places of Worship.