Subject: New inquiry: RE's impact on community relations
The All Party Parliamentary Group on RE has initiated a new inquiry into the contribution of RE to good community relations. At a series of three oral evidence sessions, MPs will have a chance to hear from teachers and other educators, researchers and young people about this important topic. The first session took place on 10th December and you can read an account of it on the REC website.
There are further sessions in January and February and we would like as many MPs as possible to attend, whether or not they are already members of the APPG. We would be very grateful for your support in encouraging them to do so - a letter from a constituent is much more likely to elicit a response than an invitation from an organisation they don't know.
Please see attached template and guidance from the Religious Education Council. One is a general note about how to go about writing to your MP, which may be useful if you haven't done this before. The second is a template for writing about this inquiry. The letter can of course be changed and personalised in whatever way you choose but it gives a possible starting point. A letter sent now would give an MP enough notice for the meeting in January so if you are willing to write, please do so as soon as you can.
We would be very grateful if you were willing to communicate with your MP for this purpose and it would also be very helpful if you could let the REC know info@religiouseducationcouncil.org.ukof any approaches made and responses received.
Many thanks for anything you are able to do on this front.
With best wishes,
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