Redbridge SACRE

Redbridge Standing Advisory Council
for Religious Education (SACRE)

Membership

Terms of reference (Adopted March 1997)

1.1 To advise the local education authority (LEA) upon such matters connected with collective worship in county schools and the religious education to be given in accordance with the Agreed Syllabus (including methods of teaching, choice of teaching material and the provision of training for teachers) as the LEA may refer to SACRE or as SACRE may see fit.

1.2 To advise on the effective and creative implementation of the collective worship requirements of the Education Act 1996 and to consider requests by schools for determinations.

1.3 To encourage the implementation of the Agreed Syllabus and in this regard to monitor the production of teaching resources and support material.

1.4 To support the LEA in reviewing provision for religious education and collective worship in county schools within the Borough.

1.5 To disseminate an understanding of the educational role of religious education and collective worship and to encourage the active involvement of local religious groups and organisations.

1.6 To keep under review the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Agreed Syllabus until such time (and no later than five years after the publication of the last agreed syllabus) it decides to require the LEA to convene an Agreed Syllabus Conference to institute a formal review.

1.7 To sponsor or support any activity or project which it deems to be consistent with the other terms of reference listed above.

1.8 To strive, in its own working and style, to be a model of co-operation between people of varying religious, political and educational backgrounds.

1.9 To publish an annual report of its work specifying any matters on which it has advised the LEA, broadly describing the nature of that advice, and setting out the reasons for offering advice on any matters which were not referred to it in the first place by the LEA.

1.10 To send its annual report to the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Council* by 30 December each year as well as to local schools and other persons and organisations as it sees fit.

* Now called the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)

	Terms of reference (Adopted March 1997)
1.1	To advise the local education authority (LEA) upon such matters connected with collective worship in county schools and the religious education to be given in accordance with the Agreed Syllabus (including methods of teaching, choice of teaching material and the provision of training for teachers) as the LEA may refer to SACRE or as SACRE may see fit.
1.2	To advise on the effective and creative implementation of the collective worship requirements of the Education Act 1996 and to consider requests by schools for determinations.
1.3	To encourage the implementation of the Agreed Syllabus and in this regard to monitor the production of teaching resources and support material.
1.4	To support the LEA in reviewing provision for religious education and collective worship in county schools within the Borough.
1.5	To disseminate an understanding of the educational role of religious education and collective worship and to encourage the active involvement of local religious groups and organisations.
1.6	To keep under review the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Agreed Syllabus until such time (and no later than five years after the publication of the last agreed syllabus) it decides to require the LEA to convene an Agreed Syllabus Conference to institute a formal review.
1.7	To sponsor or support any activity or project which it deems to be consistent with the other terms of reference listed above.
1.8	To strive, in its own working and style, to be a model of co-operation between people of varying religious, political and educational backgrounds.
1.9	To publish an annual report of its work specifying any matters on which it has advised the LEA, broadly describing the nature of that advice, and setting out the reasons for offering advice on any matters which were not referred to it in the first place by the LEA.
1.10	To send its annual report to the Schools Curriculum and Assessment Council* by 30 December each year as well as to local schools and other persons and organisations as it sees fit. * Now called the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)