HUMANIST Society Scotland have called on the members of West Dunbartonshire’s minority faith groups to boycott the recruitment process for a new religious representative to the council’s education committee.
At present both the Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church each have a representative and now council officers are advertising for a member of any other faith body to fill the vacant third seat.
Religious representatives have full voting rights in committee meetings but cannot be voted out by the community and are not required to adhere to the Ethical Standards in Public Life Act.
HSS are campaigning to change the law that compels councils in Scotland to appoint three church reps and are urging supporters to sign a petition at enlightenup.scot.
Gordon Macrae, chief executive of HSS, said: “Church representatives are unelected, unrepresentative and unaccountable.”
A spokeswoman for the local authority said: “West Dunbartonshire Council is carrying out its statutory duties as the Education Authority.”
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