Consultation Responses and Submissions

Consultation Responses and Submissions

Read our submissions and consultation responses. These contain plenty of facts, statistics and ideas that you may find helpful in your own discussions and debates.

Consultation Responses

A significant part of our output, which often receives less attention, is our submissions to Government or international bodies' consultations. A selection of these submissions can be found below.

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BBC draft editorial guidelines
Fri, 09 Nov 2018

We urged the BBC to treat free expression as a positive value and raised concerns that new guidelines defer excessively to religious sensitivities.

Relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education
Fri, 02 Nov 2018

We largely welcomed the guidance under consultation which delivers many of our campaign aims for non-discriminatory, non-stigmatising and age appropriate relationships and sex education.

Unfortunately the guidance is undermined by poorly defined requirements to take account of the religious background of pupils and freedoms for faith schools to teach in accordance with their ethos. Sadly, this will in all likelihood continue to serve in many faith schools as a euphemism for discrimination, stigmatisation, misinformation and censorship.

Elective home education (EHE) call for evidence
Mon, 02 Jul 2018

Our response calls for a balancing of protections for the autonomy of EHE families, the interests of LAs and the rights of children. This relates to our work:

- Challenging abuses of children's rights in the unregistered (illegal) faith school sector.

- Ensuring that children's rights to an education are not undermined on grounds of
religion or belief.

Consultation on Integrated Communities Strategy green paper
Tue, 05 Jun 2018

Our response to the government's integration strategy for communities in England welcomes some of the proposals, but expresses concern over others (including the reliance on faith leaders) and disappointment over the the failure to acknowledge the division caused by faith schools.

Operating the Independent School Regulatory System
Tue, 22 May 2018

Consultation on drafts of advice for schools on independent school standards, and policy statement on regulatory and enforcement action, and regulations relating to the provision of information by independent schools.

The NSS outlined its support for the draft advice.

Lancashire County Council’s halal meat consultation 2018
Thu, 22 Feb 2018

The county council is considering its current policy for the supply of halal meat to schools. The council currently provides both stunned and un-stunned halal meat in a small number of schools, providing this service for school meals where there is the demand for it. The county council is considering the proposal to provide only stunned halal meat to schools.

The NSS responded strongly supporting the proposal to provide only stunned halal meat to schools.

Changes to the teaching of Sex and Relationship Education and PSHE
Thu, 08 Feb 2018

As sex and relationship education becomes compulsory in schools, it's important that all pupils have access to comprehensive, age-appropriate and unbiased information, and that faith schools don't use this to advance their own ethos.

Freedom of Speech in Universities
Thu, 14 Dec 2017

Our response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, argues for a more consistent approach to universities' statutory duties on freedom of expression.

Response to Commission on Religious Education consultation on the interim report
Mon, 04 Dec 2017

Our response to the Commission on Religious Education consultation on the interim report, calling for a new national entitlement for RE.

Human rights implications of Brexit
Mon, 20 Nov 2017

While neutral on the issue of Brexit, we responded to the Joint Committee on Human Rights to ensure fundamental human rights (including those which limit religious discrimination in schools) are protected.

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