Contact: Ellie Draper, 01962 845018, [email protected]

1 Summary

1.1 The following decisions are sought:

a) That Members be appointed to serve on the Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) until the annual meeting of the County Council in May 2009 as follows:

Religious Bodies (Group A)

Reverend P.G. Davey - Assemblies of God

Mr P. Tipple - Baptist Union

Reverend G.E. Rock - Buddism

Mr C.A.R. Hughes - Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches

Mr J.L. Sharma - Hinduism

Mr J. Klein - Judaism

Mr H. Benzie - Methodism

Mr M. Riyami - Islam

Mr D. Hill - Roman Catholicism

Miss C. Bradbury - Salvation Army

Mr A. Singh Digpal - Sikhism

Ms M. Allder - Society of Friends

Mrs S. Thatcher - United Reformed Church

Mullah M. Sheriff - Shia Islam

Church of England (Group B)

Mrs L. Weatherley

Mr B.W. Hay

Canon J. Turpin

Mr T. Blackshaw

Teachers' Association (Group C)

Mr T. Strong

Ms P. Smith

Mrs T. Ronane

Mr N. Utton

Co-opted Members

Ms R. Costambeys - Secondary Education

Mrs E. Bellchambers - Higher Education

Mrs A. Post - Primary Education

Mrs C.J. Macdonald - Special Education

Mrs H.J. O'Reilly - Humanist

b) That the Chief Executive be given authority to appoint new Members to the above groups of SACRE as necessary in the interim period.

2 Reason

The constitution of SACRE requires its Members to be appointed by Hampshire County Council as the Local Education Authority. Members of the above groups were last appointed in June 2001 for a period of four years.

A review will be undertaken to look at the constitution of SACRE and at the process of Member recruitment with a report of the findings to go to a subsequent meeting.

The following Members were appointed to SACRE at the meeting of the County Council in May 2005:

Representatives of the Authority (Group D)

Mr S.W. Juniper (Chairman)

Councillor D.A. Kirk (Vice Chairman)

Councillor Mrs A. Buckley

Councillor Sam Payne

3 Other Options considered and rejected

None

4 Conflicts of Interest declared by the decision maker or other Executive Member consulted

None

5 Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee

n/a

6 Reason(s) for the matter being dealt with if urgent

n/a

Approved by: .................................... Date: 15 December 2005

Councillor Felicity Hindson

Executive Lead Member for Children's Services