{"id":145370,"date":"2025-11-05T14:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2025\/11\/11\/www.politics.co.uk\/?post_type=press-release&p=145370"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:12:16","slug":"success-re-to-be-included-in-the-national-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/opinion-former\/press-release\/2025\/11\/05\/success-re-to-be-included-in-the-national-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Success! RE to be included in the National Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humanists UK has welcomed a \u2018landmark\u2019 recommendation from the Government\u2019s Curriculum and Assessment Review to add Religious Education (RE) to the National Curriculum in England after a thorough review of its content to be conducted by an expert group in the coming months. Humanists UK has advocated for this for many decades and today hailed it as a major step towards fair, balanced, and high-quality education in religious and non-religious worldviews.<\/p>\n

As part of its submission<\/a> to the Curriculum and Assessment Review\u2019s call for evidence, Humanists UK called<\/a> for RE to be brought into the National Curriculum so that the subject be taught in a \u2018consistent, broad, and balanced manner\u2019. Throughout the review process Humanists UK engaged with the panel as it considered its recommendations.<\/p>\n

In parallel, the Review has also recommended that the Government review and revise outdated national guidance on RE in England \u2018to establish whether beneficial changes to subject content could be made in the short term that do not pre-empt the wider work the review is recommending\u2019. Current national guidance was last revised in 2010, before the 2015 High Court Fox <\/em>judgment<\/a> established that humanism must be given equal weight in the subject, and Humanists UK has called for its revision ever since then.<\/p>\n

The recommendations follow recent Government acknowledgement of the importance of treating humanism on an equal footing to major world religions in RE. In response to a question on that issue in the House of Lords, the minister told peers<\/a>that it was \u2018fundamental\u2019 that worldviews were included, and the inclusion of humanism in the RE curriculum \u2018needs addressing\u2019.<\/p>\n

Humanists UK\u2019s Chief Executive Andrew Copson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Bringing RE into the National Curriculum will be a landmark moment for fairness and high standards in a vital subject. For decades Humanists UK has argued that every young person deserves a rigorous and balanced education about religions and humanism wherever they go to school.<\/p>\n

\u2018Today\u2019s recommendation reflects that case and paves the way for consistent content, better training, and higher-quality lessons for all pupils. We look forward to working with the UK Government to make this reform a reality.<\/p>\n

\u2018We also welcome the sensible recommendation that the government should lose no time in establishing what changes it can make right now without the need for future legislation. There is much that can be done to make the existing subject more inclusive and we will be engaging with the Department for Education in that endeavour.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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