The Chair went through the matters arising in the previous meeting minutes:

·       Laura Dexter (KS1 Teacher – Furze Platt Infant) confirmed visits to Maidenhead Mosque and Synagogue had taken place, though she still needed to write the articles for the newsletter. She also stated that she still needed to do the article on the book which the Bahá’í Faith had donated. When she asked for the date of the newsletter, Anne Andrews informed the meeting that it would be circulated at the beginning of January 2024, and therefore asked for the article to be forwarded by the first week of January 2024.

ACTION: Laura Dexter to write articles for a future newsletter on:

·       Trips to Maidenhead Mosque and Synagogue,

·       The book which the Baha'i Faith had donated to the school.

·       The Chair informed SACRE members that, while some new members were recruited, a resignation had been received.

ACTION: The Chair to continue searching for potential candidates to fill the vacant SACRE positions.

·       Regarding the changes to SACRE’s Constitution (terms of reference, ToR), Laurence Ellis, Democratic Services Officer (clerk), confirmed that Anthony Lewis (Humanism) was now a member of Group A on SACRE as the Humanist representative; and that the references to ‘Chairman’ and ‘Vice-Chairman’ had been changed to ‘Chair’ and ‘Vice-Chair’, a minor amendment which did not require a ToR amendment at a SACRE meeting.

·       The Chair requested Laurence Ellis to circulate the list of action points relating to the current meeting as he had done so after the previous meeting in September 2023.

ACTION: Laurence Ellis to continue to circulate the action points shortly after each meeting.

·       The Chair informed the meeting that she had received only one email from a SACRE member regarding the Development Plan. It was agreed that the discussion on this issue would be deferred to the next meeting as members would be meeting in-person.

ACTION: SACRE to discuss the SACRE Development Plan at the next meeting in March 2024

·       Laurence Ellis confirmed that he had circulated the NASACRE Resource login details to SACRE members. The Chair requested for these to be re-circulated again in case anyone had missed them.

ACTION: Laurence Ellis to re-circulate the new NASACRE login details.

·       Laurence Ellis informed the meeting that he received email replies from members consenting to their email addresses being added to a SACRE member email list but had not received responses from every member. He then asked members in attendance whether they consented or objected to their email being added to the membership email list. Councillor Coe and Ravinder Singh gave their consent. The Chair highlighted that this was based on the headteachers requesting the email addresses of faith leaders.

ACTION: Laurence Ellis to further confirm whether SACRE members would consent for their email addresses to be added to a mailing list which would then be made available to other members.

·       Anne Andrews, SACRE Advisor, believed that she forwarded the dates of secondary RE Network meetings to Laurence Ellis for circulation, and that she also circulated them to teachers.

·       Anne Andrews confirmed that the newsletter had been completed and it had been circulated to all schools. Karen Waller (Headteacher – Eton Wick CE First School) confirmed she received the newsletter.

·       Anne Andrews informed SACRE members that Clive Haines had requested that the invoice for the RE Hubs be raised ahead of the deadline in April 2023, which she managed to get the Oxford Diocese to do. However, she did not know whether the invoice had been processed, though she speculated that it had been due to the Diocese not contacting her on the invoice being outstanding. She informed that she had asked for confirmation on this.

ACTION: Anne Andrews to confirm that the invoice had been processed.

·       In regard to contacting MPs and councillors to ask them to highlight RE at Party Conferences, the Chair stated that she intended to do but had not managed to get round to doing this. Anne Andrews said that she had emailed her MP in Bracknell but had received an unsatisfactory answer. Councillor Coe advised the meeting that people needed to write twice to MPs to receive a response.

·       On the RE scrapbook, Laura Dexter asked how this could be shared as it contained photographs. The Chair suggested to presented it at the next SACRE meeting in March 2024.

o   ACTION: Laura Dexter to bring her RE scrapbook to a future meeting.

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That the minutes of the meeting held on 11^th September 2023 were approved as a true and correct record.