What is SACRE?

SACRE is the ‘Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education’. Since 1944 every Local Authority is required by law to have a SACRE. Its role was further strengthened in the Education Reform Act of 1988 and most recently in 1996.

The responsibilities of SACRE are ;

• to provide advice to the Local Authority (LA) on all aspects of its provision for RE in its schools (this does not include Voluntary Aided Schools)
• to decide whether the LA's Agreed Syllabus for RE needs to be reviewed and to require the LA does so.
• to provide advice to the LA 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.
• required to publish an Annual Report of its work

SACRE meets once a term and consists of four groups, or ‘Committees’

Committee A

6 members representing elected members of the local authority

Committee B

5 members representing the Church of England nominated by the Nottingham and Southwell Diocesan Board of Education

Committee C

8 members representing Nottingham teachers including representative associations and at least one from each sector.

Committee D

12 members representing Christian (other than the Church of England) and other religious faiths as will appropriately reflect the principal religious traditions in Nottingham. Currently these are, Afro- Caribbean Churches, Council of Muslim Organisations, Hindu, Jewish, Religious Society of Friends. Sikh, URC, Salvation Army

Click here if you would like to download the Annual Report of the Nottingham City SACRE 2007