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The role of SACRE is to support and give advice to the local authority, schools, teachers, parents/carers on matters that are related to collective worship and religious education in community schools.
Blackburn with Darwen, SACRE is a statutory body, made up of people from a wide range of faith groups who volunteer to be members. It is not part of the local authority, which means that they can ask us to review our locally agreed religious education syllabus. They will also consider requests from schools that want to stop providing an act of worship (broadly Christian in nature) to some, or all of the children in the school.
The structure of Blackburn with Darwen’s SACRE is defined by law, and is made up of four groups or committees.
Other individuals can be co-opted onto SACRE to support its work.
It is required by law that each local authority has its own Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)
The main function of SACRE is to advise the local authority on matters related to the teaching of religious education which follows the agreed syllabus, and on collective worship in schools.
The Blackburn with Darwen agreed syllabus for religious education 2017-2022 was adopted from RE Today. It is the syllabus to be used by all community schools and is recommended for, academies and free schools. The full document has been distributed directly to all schools. Any schools requiring the full version to be resent should contact a.ashworth-taylor@blackburn.gov.uk. For agreed syllabus details please contact Sharifa Valli on 01254 666462 or email sharifa.valli@blackburn.gov.uk.
The Agreed syllabus will be reviewed in 2021-22 and a new/revised version will be published in 2022. Until notified otherwise schools should continue to use the 2017-2022 version.
Details on the legal framework, rights and responsibilities can be found on the GOV UK website.
To comply with copyright requirements the agreed syllabus licensed for use in Blackburn with Darwen Schools must not be distributed to schools or teachers working outside of/beyond the local authority.
The membership of SACRE is split into four committees:
Kelsang Pagpa
Madhu Pandya
Jeremy Michelson Vice Chair (Education) JRC of Greater Manchester & Region
The Church of England (2)
Chris Speight
Liz Beaumont - NEU
Chris Dudgale - NAHT
Jenny Savage - LA Networks
Clare Aimee Taylor - LA Networks