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Latest News
Mon, 23 Apr 2018
Religion a major source of tension in Britain, poll finds
The NSS has said policy makers must avoid dividing people by religion after a poll found it is a major source of tension in Britain.
Thu, 19 Apr 2018
Lords committee: respect the law before “the values of others”
Public policy must put "respect for the law" before "respect for the values of others", a House of Lords committee has said.
Wed, 18 Apr 2018
Broad consensus for reforming RE at NSS event
Experts have called for reform of the way religion and belief issues are taught at an event hosted by the NSS.
Wed, 18 Apr 2018
NSS urges ‘no more faith schools’ as it launches national campaign
The NSS has launched a national campaign dedicated to ending state-funded faith schools, with backers including the historian Dan Snow.
Tue, 17 Apr 2018
Global rights group: forced genital cutting violates medical ethics
The NSS has reiterated its call for an end to forced genital cutting after a global children's rights group strongly criticised it.
Opinion
We can mitigate the harm caused by faith schools in plenty of ways. But after the launch of the No More Faith Schools campaign, Alastair Lichten says the long-term battle is over the fact faith groups run schools at all.
Faith schools: why reducing the harm isn’t enough
Mon, 23 Apr 2018
Teachers from the ATL union have voted to demand a clampdown on parents selectively withdrawing their children from RE. But Stephen Evans says the right to withdraw should only be scrapped once the subject is reformed.
The row over right of withdrawal highlights the need to reform RE
Fri, 13 Apr 2018
Abridged version of the winding-up speech by lawyer Richard Scorer of Slater and Gordon, also an NSS vice president, at the IICSA inquiry's hearings into the handling of child sexual abuse in the diocese of Chichester.
Bishops must be accountable – and not just to themselves
Fri, 23 Mar 2018
Nick Cohen has skewered the hypocrisy of leftists who apologise for Islamic intolerance, says Chris Sloggett. To defeat it we must assert the value of free speech as the most precious right which citizens share.
What comes after The Silence of the Liberals?
Fri, 16 Mar 2018
Our education and schools officer examines the education proposals in the Government's new integration strategy and argues that they should lead to a wider discussion of children's rights and facing up to the religious segregation rife in education.
We can’t build a shared society around segregated schools
Thu, 15 Mar 2018