Consultation Responses
A significant part of our output, largely hidden from view, is our submissions to Government or international bodies' consulatations. A selection of these submissions can be found below.
The Department of Health (DH) asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce public health guidance on school, college and community-based personal, social, health and economic education, including health literacy, with particular reference to sexual health behaviour and alcohol.
The guidance is for school and college governors, school heads and teachers, college principals, lecturers and tutors, commissioners and managers in children’s trusts and children’s services, local authorities and primary care trusts.
It is also for practitioners who work with young people and who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, school, college and community-based personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol. This includes those working in the NHS, local authorities, youth services, and the wider public, private, voluntary and community sectors.
Proposed regulations about sex education, allowing religious schools to teach according to their ethos and parents to withdraw their children entirely.
Read the NSS response to the General Pharmaceutical Council’s consultation on new standards to regulate the profession.
A paper prepared for education conference entitled Faith Schools: Freedom of Choice or Recipe for Division? Their Impact on Education and Wider Society at Windsor Castle, 13 – 14 November 2009
A document detailing the IHEU intervention at UNHRC in Geneva, September 2009 with the Holy See Right of Reply and the follow up intervention from IHEU in March 2010
NSS response to a consultation document seeking views to inform the UK Government’s further consideration of a proposed European Commission (EC) Directive to prohibit discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, disability, age and sexual orientation outside the areas of employment and vocational training.
Submitted: 28 July 2009The NSS submitted its proposals relating to adverts for abortion advice clinics and condom advertising. We considered it important to do this as certain religious groups (including the Christian Medical Fellowship) are strongly against advertising and have spread claims of questionable accuracy, particularly about abortion.
18 June 2009
Raed our Formal Complaint to the BBC Trust about Thought for the Day.
