The Christian Institute, in mid-June, strongly criticised a raft of proposals on religious education from former Education Secretary Charles Clarke.
It claims that the plans would ‘wreck church schools’, further secularise the education system and lead to the compulsory teaching of non-theistic views such as humanism and atheism within RE. The wide-ranging plans include Government control of religious education in church schools, and requiring all schools to teach humanism – a belief system held by just 15,067 people, according to the 2011 Census.
Humanist policies
The ideas are contained in a report coauthored by Mr Clarke, who pays tribute to the help of Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA).
