Accord is a wide coalition of organisations which includes religious groups, humanists, trade unions and human rights campaigners. Accord takes no position on the desirability or undesirability of state-funded faith schools per se but is a coalition with specific aims for legislative reform. The campaign launched on 1 September 2008 and aims to promote inclusive schools through local and national campaigns.

For us, campaigning means:

1. Working with allies in parliament to oppose legislation which gives religious schools special exemptions from human rights legislation.

2. Speaking to the media to ensure that the voices of all those who support our aims get a fair hearing.

3. Working with our supporters across the country to resist the expansion of state-funded religious schools which operate restrictive and discriminatory admissions and employment practices.

4. Using the courts, where necessary, to challenge discrimination in schools.

5. Working to recruit more members and more supporters to make the campaign for reform impossible to ignore.

Our members

Our supporters

Our aims