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Posted: Tue, 03 Dec 2019
Jewish schools pressured parents to opt children out of sex ed
Parents have said two state-funded Jewish schools pressurised them to opt their children out of relationships and sex education.
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019
Don’t remove right to withdraw from RE, NSS urges Welsh ministers
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
NSS welcomes decision to prevent anti-LGBT protests outside school
A high court judge's ruling will prevent mainly Muslim protesters from rallying against inclusive education outside a Birmingham school.....
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
NSS refers Christadelphian charities to regulator
The NSS has referred 10 Christadelphian charities to the Charity Commission over concerns that they promote deeply intolerant messages.
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Islamic school segregating by sex despite ruling it’s unlawful
Inspectors have found an independent Islamic school segregating children by sex, two years after the practice was ruled unlawful.
Opinion
After two parents forced a school trust to provide an alternative to religious assemblies for their children, Alastair Lichten says the law which requires schools to hold acts of worship needs to change.
The requirement to hold collective worship in schools is crumbling and not worth saving
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Doctors in Britain should follow the lead of those who have declared ritual male circumcision a breach of medical ethics, argues Dr Antony Lempert.
The medical profession should protect all children from unnecessary genital cutting
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Megan Manson continues our election analysis of parties' policies on secularist issues. This time she examines the policies of the major parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Election 2019: Secularism and the parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Posted: Wed, 04 Dec 2019
Megan Manson studies the main UK-wide parties' election manifestos – and says religion will continue to be a dividing force in UK politics during the next parliament.
Election 2019: Where do the major parties stand on secularist issues?
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
Politicians need to end their fetishisation of faith schools and face the fact that a religiously divided education system is unfit for the future, argues Stephen Evans.
Why the blind spot when it comes to faith schools?
Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019