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Council to review decision to block humanist from religious education committee
Southampton City Council has agreed to retake a decision to block humanists from becoming full members of the local religious education committee following a threat of legal action.
Humanist Mary Wallbank had applied to become a full member of Southampton’s Standing Advisory Council on RE (SACRE) over two years ago and said the decision not to admit her was a violation of her human rights. However, she has agreed to pause her legal action while the council reviews the decision in November.
Ms Wallbank said: I was hugely disappointed that Southampton Council chose to block my bid to become a full member of the committee, particularly given that many of the positions for religious representatives are vacant and have been for some time.
December 18th, 2020
Governments across the UK should repeal compulsory collective worship, children’s rights bodies from all four nations have told the United Nations.
Humanists UK, Wales Humanists, and Northern Ireland Humanists all contributed evidence to national reports compiled by key children’s rights bodies in each country, with partner organisation Humanist Society Scotland contributing to a similar report in Scotland.
The reports will now be used to shape the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s review of the UK’s children’s rights record.
Collective worship
With this in mind, the reports for Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland (where collective worship is known as ‘religious observance’) say the UN should ask the respective governments when they will repeal these provisions.