Curriculum And Assessment Review Special

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On 5th November 2025, a landmark recommendation was revealed for RE as a result of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. They proposed that RE become part of the National Curriculum for the first time in it's history. Then one day later, the DfE announced it's plans to bring RE into the humanities alongside History and Geography in the newly named 'breadth' bucket. But what will this mean for the subject? What question do we need to consider. To help us navigate this, I have invited Deborah Weston from NATRE, RECouncil and the RE Policy Unit. Katie Freeman - Chair of NATRE, and Sarah Lane Cawte from the RECouncil on to the podcast to answer some key questions.

• What is the CAR? Its purpose and what has the process been?
• What is the current status of RE?
• What are the current issues with RE?
• What were the findings in the interim report?
• What are the recommendations for RE in the final report?
• What is it NOT saying?
• How will this benefit RE?
• Why is high quality RE so important for young people in modern Britain?
• What happens next? Staged approach - Stage 1&2. Draft curriculum based on NCS. Consensus required.
• Recommendation for EBacc to be scrapped. How will this impact RE?
• Who will write it?
• What happens to SACRES?
• What about voluntary aided school’s with religious character?
• What will happen to the Right to withdraw?
• Should we change the name?
• What about Non statutory RE?
• What are the changes to GCSE?
• What about staffing, bursary, SKEs?

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