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Name: Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)
Start: 2025-03-06T16:30:00Z
End: 2025-03-06T20:30:00Z
Location: 008, Civic Office

Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) - Doncaster

Agenda

Published

Minutes

Published

Meeting Times

Scheduled Time

Start:
Thursday, 6th March 2025
4:30 PM

End:
Thursday, 6th March 2025
8:30 PM

Actual Time

Started:
Thursday, 6th March 2025
12:00 AM

Finished:
Thursday, 6th March 2025
12:00 AM

Meeting Status

Status:
Confirmed

Date:
06 Mar 2025

Location:
008, Civic Office

Meeting Attendees

Chair

Mr Bob Kiddle

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Jugtinder Singh

National Education Union Teachers Association

Absent

Committee Member

Danielle Heath

Absent

Committee Member

Mrs Pahani Kaur

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Lucy Saxton

Absent

Committee Member

Support Assistance

Mary Sivaanbu

Absent

Committee Member

Mr S Syed

Absent

Committee Member

Tara Moxon

Absent

Committee Member

Mrs Sally Faulkner

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Mr Andy Wright

Absent

Committee Member

Harvey Kasin

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Vanessa Gregory

Absent

Committee Member

Amy Roddam

Absent

Officer

Head of Service - Education

Jane Reed

Present, as expected

Officer

Learning Standards and Effectiveness Officer

Sameena Choudry

Apologies

Committee Member

Councillor Martin Greenhalgh

Conservative

Present, as expected

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Vice-Chair

Councillor Glynis Smith

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Councillor Yetunde Elebuibon

Absent

Committee Member

Councillor Sue Knowles

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Jemma Gelder

Absent

Committee Member

Keith Hawker

NASUWT Doncaster: Local Negotiation Secretary

Present, as expected

Committee Member

Hannah Lambert

Present, as expected

Agenda

0 Appointment of Chair

Minutes As the Chair, Bob Kiddle had previously stated he would no longer Chair SACRE meeting, it was agreed that the Vice-Chair, Councillor Glynis Smith chair the meeting until a new Chair was elected.

RESOLVED that Councillor Glyn Smith be elected as Chair the SACRE meeting for this meeting only.

1 Welcome/Introductions and apologies for absence (Chair).

Minutes The Chair welcomed all to the meeting and introductions and apologies were made.

2 Declarations of Interest, if any

Minutes No declarations were reported at the meeting.

3 Minutes of the meetings held on 14th and 28th November, 2024

Attachments:

Document 141124 27 Feb 2025
Document 281124 27 Feb 2025

Minutes RESOLVED that the minutes of the meetings held on 14 and 28 November be approved as correct records and signed by the Chair.

4 Doncaster SACRE annual report 2023-2024 (attached) (Chair/Jane Reed).

Attachments:

Document Doncaster SACRE Annual Report 2023 - 24 (final draft) 27 Feb 2025

Minutes Prior to discussion on this item, it was advised that Niyi Olusola had just arrived in the meeting. Niyi was welcomed to the meeting. He thanked SACRE for his appointment and looked forward to working with all members going forward. He was advised that SACRE were aware that he had expressed interest in becoming Chair. However, this item had been delayed until the next SACRE meeting in July 2025.

Jane Reed stated that the Annual Report 2023-2024 had previously been scheduled for discussion at the SACRE meeting in October. However, this meeting was inquorate therefore SACRE were now being asked to approve the report.

Bob Kiddle stated that he felt that the report reasonably reflected was SACRE had achieved and proposed that SACRE approve the report.

RESOLVED that the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) Annual Report 2023-2024 be approved.

5 Appointment of new SACRE Members (Jane Reed).

Minutes Jane Reed, Head of Education and Skills reported to members that a new Member had recently been appointed to SACRE through the Officer Decision Record approval process, this item was being brought to SACRE to formally note the appointment. She advised that Mr Niyi Olusola was a representative from the Christian Denomination.

Whilst Niyi was not present at the meeting, all Members welcomed him and look forward to working with him on SACRE.

RESOLVED that the appointment of Niyi Olusola – Christian Denomination representative to SACRE be noted.

6 Resignation of SACRE Chair (Chair).

Minutes As previously advised Bob Kiddle had resigned as Chair of SACRE, although he wished to remain on SACRE as the Humanist representative. The Vice-Chair Glynis Smith and Members wished to thank bob for sharing his valued experience and guidance throughout his time as Chair of SACRE.

RESOLVED the resignation of Bob Kiddle as Chair of SACRE be noted.

7 Appointment of SACRE Chair (Jane Reed).

Minutes Jane Reed advised SACRE that the new Member who had been appointed earlier to SACRE had shown his interest in becoming the Chair. However, as he was not present at the meeting it was suggested that this item be delayed until the next meeting. No other nominations for Chair had been put forward.

RESOLVED that appointment of a new Chair be delayed until the next meeting of SACRE on Thursday 3 July, 2025.

8 Agreed RE Syllabus Launch Event (Beth Turner/Sameena Choudry).

Minutes Beth Turner, Commissioning Lead, CYPF advised SACRE that the Launch date for the Agreed RE Syllabus had been scheduled to take place on Friday 9th May 2025 at the Eco Power Stadium. The event would consist of a market stall event, where people can come along and speak to SACRE.

She advised that so far interest had been confirmed by: -

Bob Kiddle, Keith Hawker, Cllr Yetunde Elebuibon and Hannah Lambert.

If any member wished to be involved if they should get in contact with Beth outside of the meeting who would provide further information on the event.

9 RE Today Update (Ian Nicholson).

Attachments:

Document National SACRE Update Spring 2025 Doncaster 27 Feb 2025

Minutes Ian Nicholson had sent his apologies for the meeting. However, Julia Diamond attended and provided SACRE with a RE Today Update which detailed information on the following:-

· NATRE Primary Provision Survey

· Spirited Arts 2025

· RE Hubs

· NATRE responds to the DfE Call for Evidence for the Curriculum Review

· Explaining Atheism

· Jerusalem Trust Application – RE Grants for Schools

· Windows into Buddhism

· Woolf Institute

· Understanding Humanism

· Upcoming RE Today Courses for the Spring Term and beyond

Following the update a number of comments were raised as follows: -

Bob Kiddle advised SACRE that as the Humanist Rep UK he has visited a number of schools to present speeches on Humanism outside of the Borough, but as yet not been invited to a Doncaster School, he hoped that this would change with the introduction of Syllabus changes.

In terms of the explaining Atheism topic highlighted within the report, Bob stated that Humanism and Atheism should not be seen as the same. He advised that Humanism was from a more positive stance.

Jane Reed advised that the Chair’s report for SACRE had been started and a lot of what is presented today could be used to populate the Chairs report along with sign posting the courses available.

She also stated that in terms of Continual Professional Development (CPD), the update will be promoted through the Education and Skills newsletter along with providing advice and guidance which is helpful to SACRE. It was noted that the launch event for the Syllabus would also be signposted within the newsletter.

In response to a query on whether a survey had been produced for SEND Schools, it was advised that no extra SEND survey had been completed. However, Julia would take this back to NATRE and provided feedback in due course.

RESOLVED that the report be noted.

10 Any other business.

Minutes Bob Kiddle suggested that REsource Directory be added to the next agenda. He advised that this was currently out of date and was not particularly successful. He also stated that this had now been overtaken by the Hub and suggested that it be removed from the SACRE website.

11 Date and time of next meeting

Thursday 3rd July 2025 at 4.30 pm

Minutes Thursday 3 July 2025 at 4.30pm

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