SACRE (Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education)
Purpose and Key Documents
The Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) is constituted by law to advise Sheffield City Council. It has the following duties:
- To convene an Agreed Syllabus Conference to revise and recommend to us a local Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education (RE) for all maintained schools age 4 to 19 in Sheffield.
- Monitor the provision of RE in Sheffield schools, preparing an annual report to us and the National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education.
- Advise Sheffield schools on Collective worship and consider requests from Head teachers for a determination to lift the requirement for it to be in the main Christian.
- Advise Sheffield Schools on matters related to Religious Education and Collective Worship that arise from time to time
- Support Community Cohesion within the city.
Key Documents
The outcome of a review of RE carried out by the REC. It produced a non-statutory national curriculum framework for RE to complement the new national curriculum programmes of study (2013) resulting from the DfE’s review of the school curriculum, (in which RE was not included).
The Ofsted report published in 2013.
A seminal report on the use of resource in RE.
A report arising from the research and debate carried out by the Westminster Faith Debates and the Religion and Society Research programme which gave rise to them.
This report is the outcome of a project undertaken "within the Religious Literacy Programme in the Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. With funding from Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, an educational charity committed to excellence in RE, RE for REal examines future directions for teaching and learning in schools about religion and belief."
The first report produced by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Religious Education
"In September 2013 the Woolf Institute convened an independent commission to undertake over a two-year period the first systematic review of the role of religion and belief in the UK today and to make policy recommendations." This report is the outcome of that consultation.
Sheffield SACRE Annual Report 2021-2022