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Religious assemblies 'should be scrapped'

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Schools should no longer hold collective acts of worship, a report has concluded. The study, for the Arts and Humanities Research Council, claims that acts of worship could discriminate against other religions.

In England and Wales, apart from non-Christian faith schools, all schools are required to hold a daily act of collective worship of a broadly Christian character. Parents already have the right to remove children from these, if they so wish.

Listen to Andrea Williams discuss collective worship in school assemblies on LBC below:

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