Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Education and Skills.

That the Dorset SACRE syllabus be approved to enable teaching and learning from Autumn Term 2025.

Reason for the decision

So the formal agreed Dorset locally Agreed Syllabus can be shared with all our schools and academy settings.

To consider the report by the Education Challenge Lead.

The Corporate Director for Education and Learning introduced the report on the Dorset Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education’s (SACRE) agreed syllabus. There was a statutory duty for religious education to be delivered in school and for local authorities to adopt a syllabus. It would provide teachers an outline of the curriculum that they need to deliver.

Following a question about how it would be implemented, members were advised that the council would encourage schools to implement the syllabus; it would be promoted through communications and training offers on the new syllabus. Ofsted were the regulator so they could check its implementation

The Chair of Dorset SACRE was grateful for the support of the Education Authority and was looking forward to launching the syllabus.

Proposed by Cllr C Jones, seconded by Cllr W Chakawhata.

Decision:

That the Dorset SACRE syllabus be recommended to Cabinet for approval.