This week Accord was the topic of a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group at Westminster, giving us the chance to put our views on faith schools directly to MPs and peers.

Accord Chair Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain on why he thinks the campaign is important

It’s been just over a week since Accord launched to challenge discrimination in faith schools and we’re very pleased with the way our aims have attracted support and generated debate.

Welcome to the website of the Accord coalition. We are a new broad-based coalition calling for inclusive schools and an end to special arrangements for state funded religious schools.

Trials of “Islamic extremists” may be what dominates the headlines at present, but it is a much more peaceful institutional development that could bring dire long-term problems: faith schools.