Agenda and minutes

Peter Martin was proposed and seconded as Chair and John Wilson was proposed and seconded as Vice Chair respectively of the Lancashire SACRE until the Annual General Meeting in November 2024.

There were no further nominations

Resolved: - That Peter Martin and John Wilson serve as Chairman and Vice-Chairman, respectively, of the Lancashire SACRE until the Annual General Meeting in November 2024.

Apologies were received and noted. 

Ian Watkinson replaced Julie Gordon at the meeting.

It was noted that some members of the Committee had not attended meetings for some time and that the Terms of Reference stated at 4(g) 'following non-attendance of a member at three consecutive meetings without apology, the SACRE will recommend to the LA that a replacement nomination be sought from the relevant nominating body.

The clerk to the Committee undertook to review attendance data and action accordingly.

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The minutes of the meeting held on 2 October 2023 were approved as an accurate record.

Elaine Cluet, SI Secondary Lead, Head of Governor Services, Education Improvement, Lancashire County Council and County Councillor Jayne Rear attended the meeting to link up and seek the expertise of the SACRE members, using their knowledge and support to help in the recruitment of governors in schools, in particular the aim being to help improve the diversity in recruiting for governing bodies, which it was felt SACRE was very well placed to do with all the different faiths and non-faith groups being represented.

It was identified that SACRE members, and in particular those members who are also governors, would have a detailed understanding of the role and could possibly 'champion' the role in their communities.

The specific issue with the recruitment of foundation governors was noted.

Cllr Jayne Rear, the Cabinet Member for Education and Skills had requested to be included in the invite to the meeting, highlighting just how well regarded the Lancashire SACRE is and the positive work it does.

SACRE members discussed the matter is some detail made a number of observations and suggestions for improvement and offers for further discussion outside of the meeting.

The Chairman, Peter Martin agreed to work with Elaine to draft a note for circulation to a wider audience.

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Alison Lloyd, Special Support Adviser, School Improvement Service, presented the Lancashire SACRE Draft Annual Report, which covered the work of the Lancashire SACRE for the period September 2022 to September 2023 and which had been considered by the Quality and Standards Sub-group at its recent meeting on 18 October 2023.

It was noted that it was up to SACRE members to decide what went in the Lancashire SACRE Annual Report.

At the end of the report, a revised Lancashire SACRE Development Plan 2023-2025 was also presented to Members. The Development Plan set out SACRE's key priorities for improvement. Progress in implementing the plan was evaluated on an ongoing basis so that priorities could be adjusted and revised as needed. The NASACRE evaluation tool was used to help identify areas for improvement. Comparison had been undertaken with other SACREs to pick up on good practice.

Peter Lumsden provided an update on the organisation of Building Bridges Burnley for inclusion in the Annual Report.

Alison Lloyd collated the feedback for inclusion in the final draft. It was noted that the Lancashire SACRE Annual Report had to be published by the end of January 2024.

The thanks and appreciation of SACRE were placed on record to Alison for her work in drafting the report and her support to SACRE.

The correspondence which had been circulated since the last meeting was noted.

Dr Malcolm Craig reported on a successful school invitation during inter-faith week.

Jaspal Kooner, Sikh representative thanked SACRE for the opportunity to attend the whole meeting and looked forward to contributing to SACRE's future work programme.

SACRE (10am)

·  Monday 6 February 2024

·  Monday 24 April 2024

·  Monday 10 July 2024

·  Monday 2 October 2024

·  Monday 20 November 2024 (Annual General Meeting)

QSS (Virtual at 10am)

·  Wednesday 18 January 2024

·  Wednesday 1 March 2024

·  Wednesday 7 June 2024

·  Wednesday 6 September 2024

·  Wednesday 18 October 2024 (was 25 October 2024)

Members of the committee recommended that the number of meetings scheduled for SACRE in 2024 be reduced from five to four, with the September QSS meeting being considered for removal from future calendar of meetings.

SACRE (Mondays at 10am in County Hall)

5 February

22 April

8 July

30 September – meeting date deleted from the calendar

18 November

Quality and Standards Sub-group (Wednesdays at 10am - Virtual)

17 January

6 March

5 June

10 September

18 October

The next scheduled meeting of the SACRE will be held at 10.00am on Monday 6 February 2023, at County Hall, Preston.

It was noted that the next meeting of the Lancashire SACRE would be held at 10am on Monday 6 February 2024 at County Hall, Preston.