Christian assemblies in state schools could be dumped in ground-breaking move
by Mark Ellis, Daily Mirror:
A local council has become the first in Britain to allow its schools to be freed from having to provide daily Christian worship.
State schools in Brent in north London are now allowed to provide multi-belief assemblies.
The approach has been hailed by inclusive education experts as ‘ground breaking’ and could lead to a dramatic change in assemblies across England and Wales.
All state funded non-faith schools in Britain are required to provide a daily act of worship that must be ‘wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character’.
The only exception for locally maintained schools exists when a special committee of the local authority grants a school dispensation to provide another form of daily worship.
Brent Council’s committee – known as a Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) – has decided to promote multi-belief assemblies.
Read also: Statement on collective worship in schools, from the Church of England website
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