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Six months ago I blogged about plans by Cornwall's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) to advise teachers on how to deal with potential suicide bombers (or "violent religious extremists" to use the officials' own phrase.) I wrote a follow-up post which you can read here . There was to have been a summer training camp for 31 schools, at a cost of £3,500. It didn't happen. I am told it's not been cancelled, the summer school has not been dropped, but there is no date for when the idea might be pursued again. My request for an interview

Cornwall's Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education might not have appreciated the potential for controversy when it agreed to convene a special conference to train teachers how to spot potential suicide bombers in the playground. Two obvious questions: if there is a serious terrorist threat to Cornwall, is the SACRE really the appropriate organisation to lead the counter-terrorism fight? And will having a demonstrably (overwhelmingly) white, Christian organisation in the driving seat really help reassure Cornwall's tiny Islamic community that this is not just a bit of Muslim-baiting? Methinks this story could run a while.

I hope to run a story on BBC Radio Cornwall tomorrow morning about the local Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) and its plan to train school teachers how to spot potential suicide bombers in the playground. It's not every day that the SACRE sits through a presentation from police, complete with slides from MI5 and contact details for Special Branch. The official "threat level" from some unspecified violent religious extremist is currently assessed as "severe." So the SACRE has agreed to sponsor a special summer conference for 31 schools. Teachers will be helped to identify those traits which

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