Many state schools in England are not providing group worship, despite legislation making it a requirement, a survey suggests.

The Comres survey for BBC local radio found 64% of the 500 parents questioned said their child did not attend daily acts of collective worship.

But 60% of the 1,743 adults asked said the legislation should not be enforced.

Many state schools in England are not providing group worship, despite legislation making it a requirement, a survey suggests.

The Comres survey for BBC local radio found 64% of the 500 parents questioned said their child did not attend daily acts of collective worship.

But 60% of the 1,743 adults asked said the legislation should not be enforced.

I don't see why it should be enforced.

I'm all for them to hold general assemblies and preach ethics and morality, but wrapping it up as some kind of deity worship is unnecessary.

TBH I find it disgraceful that children are fed any sort of collective worship [LIFTED] from the state education system.

I see no valid reason, at all, for state schools and state money being used to promote "worship".

If you want your child exposed to that [LIFTED], do it on your own time.

TBH I find it disgraceful that children are fed any sort of collective worship [LIFTED] from the state education system.

I see no valid reason, at all, for state schools and state money being used to promote "worship".

If you want your child exposed to that [LIFTED], do it on your own time.

I went to a CofE school, one would expect that sort of thing done there. I know non-CofE schools in my area didn't do any sort of worship. For us, worship was "say the prayer at the end of assembly, unless you don't want to then please just sit there quietly", there were readings from the Bible, but they weren't offensive, and served the same purpose as many children's books, to have a story with some sort of morel at the end...Oh, there was also Easter and Christmas trips to the local Church, but if your parents asked the school to not take you then you were left to get on with other work in a classroom.

I don't think religion should be thrust on anyone, however, I think it's incredibly important to understand that some people do believe in it and take offence at what some people say against it (these people often being the type who don't shout about it).

There are quite a few hymes I know off by heart - they are good tunes and its useful to know some for the weddings / funerals that one will attend over ones life

Indeed, though this raises and interesting point, why do atheists have weddings/funerals in churches? My cousin got married in a church last Saturday and neither of them are Christians, and the service was very heavily religious...

Indeed, though this raises and interesting point, why do atheists have weddings/funerals in churches? My cousin got married in a church last Saturday and neither of them are Christians, and the service was very heavily religious...

I went to a humanist wedding. It was like someone had gone through a CofE wedding service and had tippexed the word “god” out of the text. I found that more hypocritical than if they had gone to a church and done it there. At least then they would be getting a “genuine” service with some historical grounding, not some watered down mash-up.

I was married in a church. I did admit to the vicar that it was simply because the 700 year old church made a lovely venue, and that it would go easier on my mum, if we married in a church. He was refreshingly pragmatic, and commented that we had just paid £400 for the privilege.