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That the amendments to the SACRE Constitution – Section 1 Membership Structure, as set out in the Appendix to the report, be accepted.

The Executive considered a report setting out proposed amendments to the SACRE Constitution which would revise the membership requirements for SACRE.

In her introduction of the report the Executive Member for Children’s Services provided background to the work of SACRE which was a statutory body that advised on the teaching of Religious Education in schools.  Councillor Helliar-Symons went through the proposed changes, one of which was that instead of stating the number of representatives from specific Christian denominations the four representatives could come from any of these denominations.  A similar change was proposed to the representation in the Teachers and Teaching Union group.

Councillor Helliar-Symons felt that the proposals should help with attendance and make it easier to fill the vacancies that existed.

RESOLVED: That the amendments to the SACRE Constitution – Section 1 Membership Structure, as set out in the Appendix to the report, be accepted.