North Yorkshire Council

North Yorkshire Standing Advisory Council

on Religious Education (SACRE) –

June 2023

Update from the Local Authority

1.0	Purpose of the Report
	To inform Members on work undertaken by the Local Authority since the last SACRE meeting.

2.0 Communication and resourcing

2.1 Local Authority Officers have met with the Professional RE Adviser to co-ordinate the collation of data for the Annual Report.

2.2 The termly newsletter is continuing to be distributed to schools via the Red Bag system, and occasional and ad hoc information is also posted via Red Bag.

2.3 School leaders have been communicated to both via Red Bag and SEAs to encourage participation in responding to the annual SACRE questionnaire which provides baseline data for the Annual Report.

3.0 Support for Senior Leaders and Governors

3.1 The contract for the Professional Religious Education Adviser is being finalised. Olivia Seymour will continue in this role from September as an independent consultant. The contract has been arranged to cover two academic years which encompasses the launch of the new Agreed Syllabus.

3.2 The Local Authority facilitated the administrative and bookings of subject leader networks and are continuing to update the resources pages on http://nyes.info Networks and training courses are available to be booked for the current school year. Data concerning uptake and feedback is reported in the professional adviser report.

4.0 Ofsted inspections

4.1 Since the last SACRE meeting Ofsted have published 16 Section 5, 8 and monitoring reports;

	Primary	Secondary	Special	PRS
Maintained	13	1	0	0
Academy	1	0	1	0

There was no narrative referring to religious education and collective worship in any of the published reports.

Adrian Clarke

Principal Education Adviser (Support)

County Hall, Northallerton

06/06/2023

Report Author: Adrian Clarke

Background documents:  None