... was Sunday school and the only widely available text was the Bible. In 1870 education became compulsory for all. Established schools continued to teach Religious Instruction, and schools that were formed to accommodate the new enrolments also based their learning around religion, although in a non-denominational format. Since the Education Act of 1944, parents have been given the right to withdraw their children from religious experiences in a school context, whilst teachers have been permitted to withdraw from or decline to teach this subject if they felt it to be personally inappropriate. Attitudes towards the content and application of this subject have developed in keeping with our modern multi-cultural society, with every child in full-time education being legally entitled to experiences within Religious Education up to the age of eighteen. Syllabuses have been compiled by Local Education Authorities (LEA) to comply with the legal requirements laid out in the 1988 ...

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