Agenda

Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) - Wednesday, 5th February, 2025 4.00 pm

Venue: Committee Room 2, County Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 2EF

Contact: Rebecca Little 

Items
No. Item

1.

INTRODUCTIONS AND APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 87 KB

Minutes of the meeting of the Northumberland Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE), Agreed Syllabus Conference, held on Wednesday, 13 November 2024, as circulated, to be confirmed as a true record, and signed by the chair.

 

3.

DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST

Unless already entered in the Council’s Register of Members’ interests, members are required where a matter arises at a meeting; 

 

  1. Which directly relates to Disclosable Pecuniary Interest (‘DPI’) as set out in Appendix B, Table 1 of the Code of Conduct, to disclose the interest, not participate in any discussion or vote and not to remain in room. Where members have a DPI or if the matter concerns an executive function and is being considered by a Cabinet Member with a DPI they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with the matter.

 

  1. Which directly relates to the financial interest or well being of a Other Registrable Interest as set out in Appendix B, Table 2 of the Code of Conduct to disclose the interest and only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak at the meeting but otherwise must not take part in any discussion  or vote on the matter and must not remain the room.

 

  1. Which directly relates to their financial interest or well-being  (and is not  DPI) or the financial well being of a relative or close associate, to declare the interest and members may only speak on the matter if members of the public are also allowed to speak. Otherwise, the member must not take part in discussion or vote on the matter and must leave the room.

 

  1. Which affects the financial well-being of the member, a relative or close associate or a body included under the Other Registrable Interests column in Table 2, to disclose the interest and apply the test set out at paragraph 9 of Appendix B before deciding whether they may remain in the meeting.

 

  1. Where Members have or a Cabinet Member has an Other Registerable Interest or Non Registerable Interest in a matter being considered in exercise of their executive function, they must notify the Monitoring Officer and arrange for somebody else to deal with it. 

 

NB Any member needing clarification must contact monitoringofficer@northumberland.gov.uk.  Members are referred to the Code of Conduct which contains the matters above in full. Please refer to the guidance on disclosures at the rear of this agenda letter.

 

4.

AN UPDATE OF CONTACTS WITH SCHOOLS AND TRAINING PROVISION

To receive an update from Caroline Weir, Part-time RE Consultant about the provision of RE in-service training and contacts with schools since the last related meeting. 

5.

INFORMATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION

For members to receive and discuss the response received from the Department for Education following questions submitted from SACRE.

 

6.

KEY STAGE 4 AND 5 OUTCOMES 2024

For members to receive and discuss the responses received from schools following questions submitted at the previous meeting around provision of RE.

 

7.

WORKFORCE DATA pdf icon PDF 80 KB

For members to receive and discuss the Workforce Data.

 

8.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

For members to discuss the Holocaust Memorial Day event at County Hall on Monday, 27 January 2025.

 

9.

ACTIVIST SACRES IN 2024 pdf icon PDF 205 KB

For members to read the article written by Lay Blaylock on “Activist SACREs in 2024, 35+ things a good SACRE can do!” and bring to the meeting ideas which Northumberland SACRE may be interested in completing.

 

10.

SACRE CONSTITUTION WORKING GROUP

For members to be updated on the progress of the proposed SACRE constitution.

 

11.

NORTHUMBERLAND SACRE ACTION PLAN pdf icon PDF 137 KB

For members to discuss the new Northumberland SACRE Action Plan for the academic year 2024-25.

 

12.

NORTHUMBERLAND SACRE NEWSLETTER AND RESOURCES WEBPAGE

Reminder of website link: www.northumberlandeducation.co.uk/sacre

 

13.

TRAINING AVAILABLE TO SACRE

For members to note future training sessions and discuss any completed sessions.

 

Future training sessions

 

·       25 February 2025, 7-8pm: Being an effective SACRE Clerk

 

·       11 March 2025, 7-8pm: Working on an Agreed Syllabus Conference – supports and processes.

 

·       Various dates in April 2025, 6:30-8pm: NASACRE in Conversation

 

14.

NASACRE ISSUES pdf icon PDF 94 KB

Members to note the following;

 

1.     NASACRE in Conversation for the North East – 20 March 2025

 

2.     NASACRE Conference 2025 – 19 May 2025, Stratford Town Hall, Stratford London.

 

Reminder of web site link: www.nasacre.org.uk for other interesting articles which Members may wish to view.

 

15.

URGENT BUSINESS (IF ANY)

To consider such other business as, in the opinion of the Chair, should, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency.