A leading educationalist says PM David Cameron needs to recognise the importance of religion and belief education in building a truly multicultural society.

The BHA has called for RE to become a national curriculum subject, and for the requirement for compulsory collective worship in schools to be repealed.

Religious studies has entered the top 10 league of subjects in exams taken by most 16-year-old school students in Britain, the Church of England says.

The continued reform of Religious Education in schools, including teaching about non-religious beliefs, has been urged in a new Ofsted report, which has been welcomed by humanists.