To what extent does this bill protect the freedoms of pupils in state schools which are legally required to provide daily collective worship.

Its criticisms included the complaints that religious education was not adequate for older students, and that not all students could take part in daily collective worship.

The complaints procedure applies also to RE and collective worship.

The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.

The government chose to retain collective worship in schools, but to change the law to reflect 'present practice' in schools.

(In voluntary schools the governing body may determine the character and content of collective worship.)

Opposition to the emphasis on Christianity in the provisions on collective worship from non-Christian religious minority groups has continued.

Despite there being a statutory requirement for schools to hold a daily act of collective worship, many do not.

Some of the schools assemblies are now held in the chapel, including a weekly collective worship which students attend.

Most significant was their form of collective worship.