Children and Young People’s Service

 

Agenda

Notice of a public meeting of

North Yorkshire Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)

Date:

Tuesday, 9th April, 2024

Time:

4.00 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.  

Welcome and Announcements

 

 

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2.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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3.  

Minutes of the Meeting held on 19 September 2023

 

(Pages 5 - 12)

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4.  

Minutes of the meeting held on 12 December 2023

 

(Pages 13 - 24)

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5.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

All Members are invited to declare at this point any interests they have in items appearing on this agenda, including the nature of those interests.

 

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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 Edward Maxwell of Democratic and Scrutiny Services and supplied the text (contact details below) by midday on Thursday 4 April 2024, 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 - Nasr Moussa Emam

 

 

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8.  

Agreed Syllabus - Principal Adviser, Monitoring and Professional Religious Education Adviser

 

(Pages 25 - 30)

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9.  

School Websites Audit - Principal Adviser, Monitoring and Professional Religious Education Adviser

 

(Pages 31 - 36)

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10.  

Update by the Professional Religious Education Adviser

 

(Pages 37 - 48)

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11.  

Update by the Local Authority - Principal Adviser, Monitoring

 

(Pages 49 - 54)

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12.  

SACRE Self-Assessment Toolkit - Clerk

 

(Pages 55 - 56)

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13.  

Rolling Work Programme - Clerk

 

(Pages 57 - 58)

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14.  

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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15.  

Date of Next Meeting

 

 

The next scheduled SACRE is on Tuesday 18 June 2024.  It is suggested that this meeting be cancelled as it is just a few days after the launch of the Agreed Syllabus and officers have confirmed that there is no business scheduled for June that cannot await the September meeting.

 

If Members are agreeable to this cancellation, the next meeting will be on Tuesday 10 September 2024 at 4.00 p.m.

 

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16.  

Dates of meetings for the 2024/2025 School Year

 

 

These are scheduled as follows:

 

·         Tuesday 10 September 2024 at 4.00 p.m.

·         Tuesday 10 December 2024 at 4.00 p.m.

·         Tuesday 1 April 2025 at 4.00 p.m. (8 April is the date that was originally scheduled, but this is in the Easter half term)

·         Tuesday 17 June 2025 at 4.00 p.m.

 

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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 Edward Maxwell, Senior Democratic Services Officer.

 

Tel:  01748 901015

Or email edward.maxwell@northyorks.gov.uk

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

(Legal and Democratic Services)

 

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Thursday, 28 March 2024

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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

 

Claire Soderman

 

Lee Talbot

 

Vacancy

 

Group C: Teaching Associations

Tara Askew

 

Jo Colledge

 

Sarah Hodgson

 

Vacancy

 

Vacancy

 

Group D: Local Authority:

Councillor Alyson Baker

 

Councillor Robert Heseltine

 

Councillor Janet Jefferson

 

Councillor Annabel Wilkinson

 

Vacancy

 

Co-opted Member: Academic Expertise in Religious Education

Vacancy