NASACRE Publications
Here you can find reports and statements published by NASACRE.
NASACRE have issued the following statement in response to the government’s policy paper
The NASACRE Chairs welcome the publication of the Curriculum and Assessment Review report,
Building a world-class curriculum for all, and are pleased that RE has been given due attention in the
review. You can read the full statement here.
The government has announced that it will facilitate a programme of local government reorganisation for two-tier areas and for those unitary councils where there is evidence of failure or where their size or boundaries may be hindering their ability to deliver sustainable and high-quality services for their residents. This has potential to significantly affect 42 SACREs.
NASACRE have put together some advice for SACREs and we would like to draw your attention to it. This advice can be found here.
The RE Policy Unit, working with NASACRE, have put together this advice for LAs, which the Local Government Association is publishing to its members.
NASACRE have issued some advice for SACREs about the use of Oak materials
This is NASACRE’s Second Report into the funding of SACREs by LAs. It builds upon the findings of the first report, published in 2021 by analysing the responses of 142 (of 150) LAs who were sent an FOI in January 2023. It shows that the Majority of SACREs in England still do not get funded sufficiently to enable them to carry out their duties well.
This report was commissioned by the REC through funding from CStG and in partnership with NASACRE. The report sought to investigate whether recommendations for SACREs contained with the CoRE report would help to develop/change SACREs work for 21st century.
The project was based around a participatory action research method, and each SACRE that took part in the project started with answering two key questions:
1. What is working well within the present SACRE system?
2. What needs changing and how might this be changed for the better?
Each SACRE that took part in the research project tackled a different aspect of present SACRE practice, e.g. training, pedagogy, recruitment and it’s legal framework. The report details each SACREs project and draws recommendations for government, SACREs and NASACRE to consider going forward.
Here is NASACRE’s report into SACRE funding in England, published 17th May 2021. Levels of funding for SACREs have been a source of some concern and interest to the Association for some time. The report is the first ever national survey of LAs to assess SACRE funding. It is based on responses to a Freedom of Information request sent in November 2020 to all LAs in England. Responses were obtained from 136 LAs, with 15 not supplying answers by the end of March 2021.
In order for NASACRE to be able to represent the views of its member SACREs at a national level, including to the REC and other policymakers, it is important that we try to develop as full an understanding of the views of our members as possible. This is the reason for this quite lengthy research survey which was conducted by the NASACRE Chair, Paul Smalley during January – May 2017
Anonymised data from this survey is being discussed with the NASACRE Executive and being used to inform policymakers about the strengths, views and hopes of SACREs across the country. The first example of this is the evidence submitted by NASACRE to the REC Commission on Religious Education in June 2017, which you can read below.
It is also hoped that the results of this research will be published more widely in suitable journals to inform the wider RE community.
Evidence submitted on behalf of NASACRE to the Commission on RE by Paul Smalley