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The UK is the only western democracy that legally imposes worship in publicly funded schools. We have been repeatedly asked by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to repeal the collective worship laws—a justifiable call that we should not dismiss in the way that the noble Lord suggests. The idea that, because we might want to change the way that our schools operate and collectively discuss issues and values, we are throwing out the values that created our society is also naive, because that is not at all what these amendments are proposing.