The UK Government has announced plans to replace Circular 1/94, its thirty-two-year-old guidance on collective worship in England, and publish updated advice on its collective worship requirements later this year. Humanists UK, which campaigns for reform of collective worship laws, welcomes the announcement, but says that the move does not go far enough, and only a complete repeal of collective worship would address the issues raised in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on JR87. Responding to an amendment seeking to replace collective worship with inclusive assemblies in schools of no religious character during a House of Lord debate on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill on 3 February, Education Minister Baroness Smith told peers that the Government was ‘committed’ to collective worship in schools. However, the Minister also confirmed that the Department for Education planned to publish updated guidance on collective worship in England ‘to make expectations clear, including objective, pluralistic and critical delivery to give schools practical support.’ In November 2025 the Supreme Court, in a case known as JR87, found that …