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Petition update, 01 February 2008

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One third of our state schools are controlled by the Church of England (with one quarter) and the Catholic Church.

Whatever contribution to education these schools make, the churches are also using them to promote their own interests.

The present government policy of not just accepting this but of promoting the creation of more Christian schools and responding to the understandable demands from other religions for fair treatment is leading towards serious religious, racial and social division.

We face the prospect of over half our state schools being controlled for admissions, employment and ethos by non-accountable religious bodies with their own agendas.

Faith schools are not gifts from the religions: all wages and salaries and almost all building costs come out of taxes.

The changes should cause no disruption to the educational performance of the schools since most staff could remain in post.

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• Michael Winter
• Melinda Blackman
• Emma Kennedy
• Andrew Miller
• Adrian Bain
• Andrew Guerin
• Michael Iorwerth Jones
• STEVE HILL
• Owen O'Donnell
• Stephane Konstantaropoulos
• Anne Dodsworth
• John Layton
• Michael Bramley (Humanist & Philosopher)
• Stephen Jones
• Tom Meiklejohn
• Roger Gilbraith
• Daniel Nicolau
• Patricia Innes
• Ian Woods
• Avtar Taggar
• Geoffrey Cuttle
• Mr David Howe
• James Rollison
• Jane stewart-Williams
• Karl Plaisted
• Gavin Dold
• Jim lorimer
• Kevin Brooke
• John Brogden
• David Calder
• Allan Carr
• Suzy Currie
• Ben Holland
• Emma Gill
• Inderjeet Gill
• M Marsh
• John Green
• Henry Gomersall
• Mark Gray
• Christopher J. Wilton
• Rebecca Hurn
• Jenny Burrows
• Daniel Forster
• Julia Prior
• Francis Mallon
• Dr Robert McCaffrey
• tyler tommons
• Dr. Ian van der Linde
• Richard White
• Jonathan Walsh
• Geoffrey Francis Dawe
• Sally Marsh
• Terry Carlin
• Chris Morley
• Geoffrey Burrows
• andrea cornwall
• James Watson
• ANTHONY SOUTHERN
• oliver parks
• mike harrowven
• Alan Palmer
• Leslie James Beckley
• Chris Haynes
• Steve Miles
• elaine hoctor
• Andrew Taylor
• Tony Pitchford
• Daniel Pawsey
• Andy Langdon
• Matthew Harper
• james mccracken
• teresa mccracken
• Lesley Bruce
• John Macintyre
• Philippa Hayes
• Craig Armistead
• Ciaran McAndrew
• Pramod Tikaram
• Kevin White
• Andrew Twigger
• Gillian Lighton
• Natassia Caffery
• Jane Ferguson
• Alastair Walker
• Neal Wilson
• claire pashen
• Heather Sedgwick
• Gary Woodbridge
• gerry dunlop
• Joanne Pickard
• Paul Toland
• Simon Ridley
• Jane Wallace
• Charmaine Briscoe
• Paul Williams
• Gemma Brunswick
• Antony Deane
• Nigel Collins
• jay ginn
• David Hopkins
• steve lambert
• Alan Kibble
• Michael Joyce
• Richard Lewis
• Bruce Pitt
• Gordon Peckham
• keith shah
• Neil Brooker
• Rod Howe
• Vikki Williams
• Andrew Lambert
• Kevin Vaughan
• Paul Cook
• Kathy Jeary
• Richard Perrin
• Janet Mather
• Jeremy J Neal
• Peter Dale
• Malcolm Howell
• Alan Gore
• Lynda Constable
• Colin Mills
• Francis John Harrison
• Robert Banks
• Desmond Moore
• J Southworth
• Joan Carnell
• Andrew Martin Redgrave
• Kevin O'Brien
• Colin I Andrew
• tina mcsporran
• Charles Hamilton
• Tim McGregor
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• Pam Jerrard
• Greg Rowczenio
• Andrew Stewart
• Dan Kantorowich
• Dr D Stacey
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• Alex Fredjohn
• David Wembridge
• Antony Strutt
• Roger Sims
• Tim Edwards
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• Peter Thoresen
• Adam Wadding
• M Dron
• Ivor Davies
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• William Shaw
• Andrew Davies
• David Dixon
• Nigel Philip Knox
• David Mizrachi
• Sally Stevens
• Gill Lee
• J L Hamilton
• mary wall
• Gerald Masters
• Pompeyo Santiago
• Loraine Meadows
• Martin Gill
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• louise manning
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• Lloyd Czaplewski
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• Cheryl Daubney
• Colin Mackereth
• Francis O'Brien
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• Stuart Miller
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• Don Cross
• michael burden
• Nuala Savas
• Tim Waygood
• Ashley Mercer
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• William Lea
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• Kenneth Allan Monks
• John Woolley
• Paul Browne
• Iain Grant
• Prof. John Cook
• Michael Carson
• Karl Attard
• Adrian Skeates
• Jessica Lohse
• Neil Greig
• David M Law
• Mike Ford
• Norman Henderson
• Lauren Ambler
• Piers Cooper
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• Mark Tilley
• Richard Craig
• D Ritchie
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• Michael Palmer
• Chris Ambler
• Matthew Eades
• Vivien Shingleton
• Dan Ambler
• Gregory Mils
• Philip Castle
• Tony Paytom
• Simon Smith
• Douglas Salmon
• Cathy Vella
• Paul Vella
• John Smith
• David Dorning
• Adrienne Pyke
• Morgan Phillips
• Andrew Davis
• Carolyn Stewart
• Matthew J. Donald
• sophie slater
• karen Houghton
• Jayne Allison
• Phil Dixon
• T.J.Sheppard
• Alun Mort
• carol thorne
• Gary Mawby
• Michael J Lake
• Barry Winchurch
• Elizabeth Hadfield
• Christine Pearson
• Emma Jones
• Frank Winfield
• Darren Hopkinson
• Abi Moore
• Frederik Hyttel
• Val Schofield
• James Eyre
• j beere
• Gerald Schofield
• Jonathan Cobb
• stephen redmayne
• Elaine Fisher
• Kay Davies
• Samantha Hodgson
• andrew miller
• paul e
• Jessica Smith
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• Keith Bedson
• Emma Maud Louise Powell
• Heather Bower
• John Humphries
• Richard Barker
• Robert Knight
• jayne calderwood
• Kathleen Greaves
• David Carnegie
• John Daniel Walker
• John Syme
• David Cormack
• Wesley J Smith
• Ian Watts
• Lilian Watts
• patrick mckenna
• Alasdair Haswell
• Charles Nelson
• Ian Martin
• Lloyd Fletcher
• Moyra Elder
• Hugh Maloney
• Ralph Nixon
• Darren Reynolds
• Vanessa Higgins
• Howard Leech
• Chris Mason
• Neil Boom
• Roberta Crawley
• Robert Hill
• dorothy
• Dan Storer
• Paul Wainwright
• Andrew Lowe
• Robert Parkes
• Dorothy Lewis
• Nicky Coia
• Antony Richards
• Emma Hewett
• Rory Goddard
• Robert Cane
• Graham Richards
• Jill Sutherland
• Jonathan Emmett
• Dr Agnieszka Bronowska
• David Mossley
• Samuel A Webb
• Alison Black
• Jai Harrison
• Sally Carter
• David Boyd
• Karen Anne Watt
• Keith Watson
• Andrew Miles
• Jo Bell
• rosemary whitbread
• Steven Edgar
• pat angus
• Tim Smith
• Joanna Dunnington
• David Faulkner
• L. Padamsey
• Mandar Nigdikar
• gareth lockyer
• Warren Blinston
• Graham Robinson
• louise Humphrey
• ROHAN DE SILVA
• Rowan SONGSMITH
• Craig Waddington
• Vincent packer
• C Evans
• Gary Wright
• Charles Rodney Sabine
• Kaja Met
• christopher Taylor
• Hamish Watson
• Warwick King
• andrew potts
• Roger Macarthur
• Ann Lahiff
• Jade Fowler
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• anne brown
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• marie edwards
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• Ciaran Prendeville
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• T M Holding
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• Jennie Rigg
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• Keith Davies
• Dr Graham Stretch
• Andrew Carnall
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• Mr John Lewington
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• Keith R lay
• Kushere Pilling
• Alexandra Ross
• Jocelyn Baker
• Guillermo Raffo
• M J Bretherick
• Derek O'Raw
• Anthony James Owen
• Sue Kauth
• Lee McLoughlin
• John Denby
• Nikki Morgan
• Kate Sidaway
• Katharine Priddy
• Phuong Quan
• S WALLACE
• aileen young
• Steven Martin
• Christopher Jackson
• barbara hibbert
• David Jackson
• Laura Sawiak
• Sarah Long
• Fay Emerson
• Tim Nunan
• Andrew Purdy
• Andrew Hughes
• nick harris
• Robin Adams
• John Emerson
• Andrew Godfrey
• johnmichaelhatwell
• David Walter
• lucy walsh
• thomas sherborne
• vince hewitt
• Adrian Barker
• Jo Morgan
• Helen Gilroy
• Sue Parker
• John Mooney
• Jonathan Knowles
• Annabel Jones
• brian faux
• Craig Dunn
• Kayleigh Ward-Civil Celebrant
• mark mosley
• Gavin Panella
• Graham Binns
• Claire Green
• Cecilia Phillips
• Paul Roberts
• Dr Mark Barratt
• Dale Lewis
• Jane Rees
• Andrew McAleer
• Rob Davidson
• Emma Bailey
• Susan McIntosh
• David Longly
• Phillip Jones
• Dr George Thomas Gregg
• Daniel Robinson
• Chris Copsey
• Julia Mundy
• Mark Penny
• Peter Titcombe
• sandra pomeroy
• Luke Garbutt
• Dominic Bull
• Bruce Galley
• mary cane
• Hilary Green
• Darren Worley
• Linda Parkins
• Nicola Palmer
• Samantha Mosley
• Hilary Sheffield
• Mark Sadler
• nicola ridler
• Gabrielle Hannah
• Don Wycherley
• Ben Robbins
• Geoff Roberts
• Lucia Viegas
• Eric Hopley
• Matthew Francis
• gminshall
• Andrew Cawdell
• Kelly-Anne White
• Anna Barzotti
• Joseph Froggatt
• Jason Griffiths
• Hannah King
• Bernard C.TIMLIN
• Daniel Allen
• Anne Govier
• Jordan Bentley
• Victoria Mirza
• Adrian Bint
• Kerry Payne
• E Michael-Okocha
• John Wylson
• Steve Hallett
• M.Turpin
• Joanne Broadhead
• Jennian King
• Mark Watson
• Ken Chapman
• Victoria Francis
• Graeme McIntosh
• L. Mackenzie
• Rachel Brenchley
• Sean Steed
• Ashleigh griffin
• Andy Gardner
• Stuart Leather
• Benjamin H Burrowes
• Catherine Wilson
• Neil Lockyear
• Laura Woodhouse
• Stuart Roberts
• Philip Glover
• John McGoldrick
• Colin Gavaghan
• alan hobbs
• Brian May
• Ian Macdonald
• Stephen Guy
• Jon Evans
• jae evans
• David Read
• Kevin Patch
• Alan J Anderson
• Stephen Glynn
• alex gibson
• Robbie Blunden
• Ian Fitter
• mark
• Gilbert Tsang
• Stephen Malpas
• David Wrigley

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