Hampshire County Council

SACRE Item 11

10 June 2008

Report on the National Association of SACRE (NASACRE) Annual General Meeting

Report of the Director of Children's Services

1

Summary

1.1

This report provides a summary of the NASACRE (National Association of SACREs) annual general meeting held in London on 8 May 2008.

1.2

This report supports the Corporate Strategy in terms of maximising well being,

Hampshire safer and more secure for all and enhancing our quality of place.

2

Recommendations

a)

That SACRE notes the report and considers how initiatives reported on from this national meeting could contribute to its own practice.

3

Background

3.1

3.2

The Chair of SACRE, the County RE Inspector and the General Inspector for RE attended the above national meeting. The agenda included an address from Karen Armstrong, a renowned and prolific author in the field of religious studies. Questions were invited from the floor.

The afternoon agenda included NASACRE business meeting and a brief progress report of the national RE strategy (see Appendix 1) and reports on young people's faith forum projects. The County Inspector for Hampshire provided a report of the social cohesion project carried out in Hampshire under this item.

LINK(S) TO CORPORATE STRATEGY

YES

NO

Hampshire safer and more secure for all

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Maximising well-being

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Enhancing our quality of place

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This proposal does not link to the Corporate Strategy but, nevertheless, requires a decision because:

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background documents

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

NB The list excludes:

1. Published works

2. Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.