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Latest News
Posted: Fri, 15 Feb 2019
NSS: DfE must stand up to religious bullying over sex education
The NSS has written to the government after its research highlighted the bigoted messages of religious anti-RSE campaigners.
Posted: Fri, 15 Feb 2019
NSS welcomes guidance which promotes free speech at universities
The NSS has welcomed official guidance which aims to ensure universities "remain a forum for open and robust enquiry".
Posted: Fri, 15 Feb 2019
Britain risks becoming a ‘hotbed of non-stun slaughter’, warns NSS
The NSS has warned the government over non-stun slaughter after it emerged that nearly a quarter of non-stun sheep meat is exported.
Posted: Thu, 14 Feb 2019
School breaks ties with group that hosted Islamic extremists
A school has stopped letting its premises to an Islamic weekend school after the NSS raised concerns over the messages it was promoting.
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019
Government to crack down on illegal and failing independent schools
The NSS has welcomed government plans to promote integration by legislating against unregistered and failing independent schools.
Opinion
A government plan on integration sets out a positive vision on education - but faith schools remain the elephant in the room. Alastair Lichten asks if ministers' actions will match their rhetoric.
Integrated communities require inclusive, secular schools
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019
The IICSA inquiry has turned its attention to child abuse at two Catholic schools. Abuse lawyer and NSS vice president Richard Scorer delivered the following opening statement on behalf of several victims.
Catholic abuse scandals: why self policing always fails
Posted: Mon, 04 Feb 2019
Former NSS president Barbara Smoker's book My Godforsaken Life: Memoir of a Maverick reminds us of the value of ordinary people's principled activism and provides a link to secularists of the past, says Helen Nicholls.
Barbara Smoker’s remarkable life should inspire us all
Posted: Thu, 17 Jan 2019
As MPs launch a motion against parliamentary prayers, NSS CEO Stephen Evans says ending the anachronistic custom would strike a blow for modernity, equality and freedom of conscience.
Institutionalised prayer doesn't belong in parliament
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019