AQW 8397/16-21 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education whether he has any plans to bring provisions allowing pupils over 16 to choose to withdraw from religious or collective worship in line with the rest of the United Kingdom.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 2 December 2016
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 2 December 2016
- Answer due by
- 19 December 2016
- Answered
- 16 December 201614 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- No
Answer
It is for Boards of Governors, in consultation with the school trustees and the principal, to decide the arrangements for collective worship, having regard to the ethos of the school and its registered pupils. Parental consent is required for a pupil to withdraw from religious education or collective worship, or from both, and I have no plans to change this.