Children and Young People’s Service

 

Agenda

Notice of a public meeting of

North Yorkshire Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)

Date:

Tuesday, 19th September, 2023

Time:

5.00 pm

Venue:

County Hall, Northallerton

 

Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer, whose details are below, if you would like to find out more.

 

This meeting is being held as an in-person meeting. The meeting is also ‘hybrid’, which enables people to attend the meeting remotely using MS Teams. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer if you would like to find out more.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public, please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings, a copy of which is available.  Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact, prior to the start of the meeting, the Democratic Services Officer. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

 

Business

 

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1.  

Election of Chair and Vice-Chair

 

 

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2.  

Welcome and Announcements

 

 

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3.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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4.  

Minutes of the Meeting held on 20 June

 

(Pages 5 - 10)

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5.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

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6.  

Public Participation

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice to Prtick Duffy or Owen Griffiths of Democratic and Scrutiny Services (contact details below)  and supplied the text by midday on Thursday 14 September 2023, three working days before the day of the meeting.  Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.  Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak:-

·            at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes);

·            when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct anyone who may be taking a recording to cease while you speak.

 

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7.  

Member Presentation by Professor John Adams

 

 

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8.  

North Yorkshire Council SACRE Draft Annual Report 2022-23

 

(Pages 11 - 32)

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9.  

Update from Professional Religious Education Adviser

 

(Pages 33 - 38)

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10.  

Update from the Local Authority

 

(Pages 39 - 42)

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11.  

Work Programme

 

(Pages 43 - 44)

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12.  

SACRE Self-Assessment Tool- Report of the Working Party

 

(Pages 45 - 54)

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13.  

Any Other Items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances

 

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14.  

Dates of Next Meetings

 

 

12 December

9 April

Date in June TBC

 

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Members are reminded that in order to expedite business at the meeting and enable Officers to adapt their presentations to address areas causing difficulty, they are encouraged to contact Officers prior to the meeting with questions on technical issues in reports.

 

 

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Contact Details:

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda please contact Patrick Duffy, Principal Democratic Services Scrutiny Officer or Owen Griffiths, Corporate Governance Officer

Email Patrick.Duffy@northyorks.gov.uk and/or owen.griffiths1@northyorks.gov.uk

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

 

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Monday, 11 September 2023

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MEMBERSHIP OF THE STANDING ADVISORY COUNCIL ON

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

 

Group A: Faith Groups

Professor John Adams

Humanist

Sarah Beveridge

Society of Friends

Hayden Cohen

Judaism

Tom Clayton

Methodist

Chris Devanny

Catholic

David Haddock

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Abhijeet Kulkarni

Hindu

Nasr Moussa Emam

Muslim

Mohinder Singh Chana

Sikhism

Vacancy

Baptist

Vacancy

Salvationists

Vacancy

Buddhist

 

 

Group B: Church of England

Philippa  Smith

 

Lee Talbot

 

Vacancy

 

Vacancy

 

 

 

Group C: Teaching Associations

Tara Askew

 

Jo Colledge

 

Sarah Hodgson

 

Vacancy

 

Vacancy

 

Group D: Local Authority:

Councillor Alyson Baker

 

Councillor Robert Heseltine

 

Councillor George Jabbour

 

Councillor Janet Jefferson

 

Councillor Annabel Wilkinson

 

Co-opted Member: Academic Expertise in Religious Education

Vacancy