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The government is allowing independent faith schools which raise serious concerns to fail inspections repeatedly, the NSS has warned.
Posted: Wed, 24 Jun 2020
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Posted: Thu, 21 May 2020
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Posted: Sun, 28 Jun 2020
As the government considers ways to end 'gay conversion therapy' it should give Ofsted the power to stop faith schools fostering anti-LGBT attitudes in the first place, says Megan Manson.
Why can't Ofsted stop state schools preaching that same-sex relationships are wrong?
Posted: Thu, 25 Jun 2020
After a select committee chair urged more leeway for a faith school which has long censored textbooks, Stephen Evans says politicians with responsibility for education should stop pandering to religious...
Why respect religious demands to keep pupils in the dark?
Posted: Tue, 28 Apr 2020
After he was refused permission for a judicial review against Vale of Glamorgan Council, James Brunt says its decision to expand a faith school was based on dubious methodology and defied reasonable logic....
Denying a judicial review over a faith school’s expansion was a lamentable decision
Posted: Fri, 14 Feb 2020
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