A Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) is an independent body in the United Kingdom that considers the provision of religious education in the area under the jurisdiction of its Local Authority.
The SACRE advises and is empowered to require a review of the locally agreed syllabus for Religious Education (RE).
The legal constitution of SACREs is set out in the 1996 Education Act Paragraph 390 subsection (4).
[3] In practice, it would take a great deal of trouble to update Agreed Syllabi to reflect the latest trends in faith community composition or to reflect new pedagogies of RE.
[4] Even to monitor the national picture of AS content is difficult as they are often available only locally [5]