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Latest News
Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2020
NSS urges council not to approve discriminatory Catholic school
The NSS has urged Peterborough City Council not to approve plans to open a new religiously selective Catholic state school in the city.
Posted: Tue, 21 Jan 2020
Parents set to lose right to withdraw children from RE in Wales
The Welsh government plans to remove parents' right to withdraw children from lessons on religion and to rename religious education.
Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 2020
Jewish school stocked sexist texts and limits curriculum, Ofsted says
An Orthodox Jewish school stocked texts which said women are "guards" to their families' wellbeing, inspectors have said.
Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020
Council set to approve discriminatory faith school in Peterborough
A new discriminatory Catholic primary school is expected to open in Peterborough after education officials recommended its approval.
Posted: Thu, 16 Jan 2020
Don’t require employers to accommodate religious demands, says NSS
The NSS has urged the Council of Europe not to adopt a motion which would privilege religious demands from employees in the workplace.
Opinion
A private member's bill to replace compulsory worship with inclusive assemblies should prompt the government to reform the archaic collective worship law, says Stephen Evans.
Promote religious freedom in schools: abolish the worship requirement
Posted: Wed, 22 Jan 2020
Keith Porteous Wood says the shocking failings highlighted by the BBC documentary The Church's Darkest Secret show the need to separate church and state.
Let’s disestablish the church that covered up sexual abuse
Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020
Half a decade after the Islamist attack on cartoonists in France, Chris Sloggett says we owe it to the victims and those left behind to reject blasphemy taboos.
Five years after the Charlie Hebdo murders, free expression on religion still needs promoting
Posted: Tue, 07 Jan 2020
Sex education empowers young people. The government must stand up to those making faux religious freedom arguments in an attempt to stop them receiving it, argues Stephen Evans.
Don’t let controlling ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups undermine sex education
Posted: Fri, 03 Jan 2020
Three-quarters of a century ago an enduring piece of legislation secured free education for all – but gave churches substantial control over schools in return. Keith Sharpe says this settlement needs updating.
The 1944 Education Act was a landmark law – but let’s reconsider the privileges it granted to religion
Posted: Wed, 18 Dec 2019