Call for children to be able to withdraw from collective school worship

Posted May 16, 20:26

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called on the government to support the new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which calls for children to be given the right to withdraw from worship in schools.

The report says that any child of ‘sufficient maturity, intelligence and understanding’ to be given the right to withdraw from compulsory religious worship. Currently, only sixth form students have the right to withdraw themselves, and other children can only be withdrawn at the request of their parents, but the Human Rights Committee have said that this violates children’s rights to freedom of belief and conscience.

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http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/7141

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