The All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) met on Wednesday evening to discuss the National Curriculum Review and the Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Parliamentarians and others at the meeting welcomed the direction of the Review and many of the provisions in the Bill but also discussed how the Bill might be taken further to ensure better safeguarding for children and to prevent unintended consequences. Attending parliamentarians heard from Dr Kathryn Wright, CEO of Culham St Gabriel’s; Prof Ted Cantle, Founder, iCoCo (Institute of Community Cohesion) Foundation; Yehudis Fletcher, Author and Founder, Nahamu; Victor Shafiee, Deputy Director, Ofsted; and Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK. The meeting was chaired by Lizzi Collinge MP, who was also elected new Chair of the APPHG. Dr Kathyrn Wright discussed the inequity of religious education between schools and how the lack of its place within the national curriculum causes this difference in quality. She discussed Culham St Gabriel’s’ submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review where it calls for this to change to ensure a minimum standard of …