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Latest News
Posted: Thu, 14 Oct 2021
NSS calls for transparency over discriminatory school admissions
The NSS has urged the new schools' minister to increase transparency over school admissions.
Posted: Wed, 13 Oct 2021
NSS backs moves to promote integrated education in NI
The NSS has backed legislation in the Northern Ireland Assembly calling on the government to actively promote integrated education.
Posted: Wed, 13 Oct 2021
‘Inadequate’ faith school failed to teach reproduction in science
A Jewish independent faith school has been criticised by inspectors for refusing to teach about reproduction in science classes.
Posted: Tue, 12 Oct 2021
Headteacher sentenced for continuing to run illegal faith school
The NSS has welcomed the second prosecution of two people for continuing to run an unregistered faith school.
Posted: Mon, 04 Oct 2021
NSS refers Islamic charities to regulator following pro-Taliban lectures
The NSS has reported two Islamic charities to the regulator after extremist sermons were found on one of the charities' websites.
Opinion
Keith Porteous Wood says France's deference to the Catholic Church has obstructed justice for hundreds of thousands of abuse victims.
Only secular law can bring justice to victims of mass clerical abuse in France
Posted: Thu, 07 Oct 2021
Helen Nicholls reviews The Reluctant Gay Activist, the revised memoir of former NSS president Terry Sanderson.
Terry Sanderson’s memoir shows gay and secularist activism go hand in hand
Posted: Thu, 07 Oct 2021
A new government fund exclusively for faith groups threatens to embed religious privilege into public services, warns Megan Manson.
Beware the government’s “new normal” of faith-based public services
Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2021
As a bill to reform collective worship progresses in parliament, Stephen Evans argues that the time has come for lawmakers to recognise that laws mandating worship have no place in modern Britain.
Schools should be liberated from the compulsion of worship
Posted: Thu, 16 Sep 2021