A third of community schools and more than a third of academies without a religious character are failing to meet their contractual or legal obligations to provide religious education at key stage 4.
The findings come in a study from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE) based on information from 580 schools.
State schools must teach RE to under-16s – whether they are studying for a GCSE in the subject or not – but provision has been reduced since RE was excluded from the government’s English Baccalaureate league table measure.
Previous NATRE research in 2012 found that a third of all schools (33 per cent) were not meeting the legal requirement at key stage 4 – an increase of five per cent on 2011.
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