The place of Christianity in school assemblies was questioned this week after a survey for BBC Local Radio faith programmes suggested that the law requiring schools to provide \u201cbroadly Christian\u201d\u009d collective wor\u00c2\u00adship was being widely ignored. The survey also suggested that 60 per cent of the general public was not in favour of enforcing the law, the BBC says.<\/p>\n
The suggestions were based on tele\u00c2\u00adphone interviews in July with 1743 adults, 500 of whom were parents of school-age children, by ComRes, a polling organisation. The interviews showed that more than half of those over 65, but only three in ten of the 18-24 age group, favoured enforce\u00c2\u00adment.<\/p>\n
The chairman of ComRes, Andrew Hawkins, said that the poll told a story of declining support for Christian worship in schools, with only lukewarm support for the law. \u201cThe key question for the future is whether younger people will become more supportive of collective wor\u00c2\u00adship as they age, or whether this marks a generational change, and therefore further decline in support over the coming years.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n