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Church intransigence creates ‘school planning nightmare’ in Somerset
Posted: Tue, 16 Mar 2021
The Church of England's ability to block academisation options is frustrating reorganisation plans and putting schools at risk, the NSS has warned. Read More »
Community school may be lost as faith-based provision is protected
Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2021
Parents in Somerset could lose a community school as a result of special provisions which protect faith-based schooling. Read More »
Academisation leading to more religious control of schools, NSS finds
Posted: Wed, 21 Oct 2020
Religious groups have gained greater control over many schools as a result of opportunities created by academisation, the NSS has found. Read More »
High Court dismisses school religious designation review
Posted: Wed, 18 Jul 2018
The High Court has refused to grant a judicial review of a decision to merge a non-religious school into a Christian one, resulting in a new faith school. Read More »
Church forces school to close rather than join secular academy trust
Posted: Fri, 04 May 2018
A school in Surrey is to close after the local Church of England diocese refused to allow it to join a secular multi-academy trust. Read More »
Research reveals systemic bias against secular schools
Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2018
The NSS has written to the DfE after research showed faith-based provision is treated preferentially during school reorganisations. Read More »
NSS warns against plan to mix secular and Hindu academy trusts
Posted: Thu, 07 Dec 2017
Plans to merge a secular multi-academy trust and a Hindu one may create more "faith schools by stealth", the NSS has told the Government. Read More »
NSS asks DfE to clarify Oasis schools’ faith status
Posted: Mon, 13 Nov 2017
The NSS has written to the Government about a group of academies with a religious ethos which are not classified as faith schools. Read More »
Parents protest plan to merge non-religious school into Christian one
Posted: Wed, 11 Oct 2017
Parents and children have taken to the streets to protest plans to merge Trafalgar College, a school without a religious ethos, into the Christian Great Yarmouth Charter Academy. Read More »
Church to gain influence over nine secular schools in Northumberland
Posted: Wed, 31 May 2017
Concerns have been raised over plans for nine community schools in Northumberland to join with one CofE faith school to form a new mixed multi academy trust with a majority of church appointed members. Read More »
New faith schools announced in latest round of free schools
Posted: Wed, 12 Apr 2017
A number of new faith schools have been approved to open by the Department for Education (DfE) in the twelfth wave of free schools applications. Read More »
Latest religious takeover will see two community schools run by the Church
Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2017
Two community schools in Kent are to be folded into an academy trust under Church control, in the latest Church takeover of community schools, a trend warned of by the National Secular Society last year. Read More »
Faith school heads and governors raise concerns about academy religious takeovers
Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2017
Religious leaders are set to steamroll faith schools into massive academy chains, centralising church control over the state-funded schools. Read More »
Last chance to speak out against the Government’s faith school expansion plans
Posted: Thu, 08 Dec 2016
The Government's consultation on plans to open more faith schools and allow them to select up to 100% of their pupils on religious grounds is coming to a close very soon. Read More »
Faith school expansion plans ‘will not improve standards or boost social mobility’
Posted: Fri, 02 Dec 2016
Government proposals to allow a new wave of fully religiously selective faith schools will not improve standards and are unlikely to boost social mobility, new research has warned. Read More »
Church academy chain to close only secular school
Posted: Tue, 15 Nov 2016
A Church of England multi-academy trust is set to close the only non-faith school under its control. Read More »
New Hindu faith schools proposed, despite warnings of worsening ethnic segregation
Posted: Mon, 07 Nov 2016
The latest wave of free school applications includes proposals for seven new Hindu schools. Read More »
Plans to increase discriminatory faith school admissions ‘reveals an alarming democratic deficit’
Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2016
The education secretary's power to relax faith school admissions without parliamentary approval or scrutiny reveals a disturbing democratic deficit, the National Secular Society has warned. Read More »
Government launches consultation on abolishing faith school admissions cap
Posted: Tue, 13 Sep 2016
The Government has launched a consultation on plans to abolish the admission cap on faith schools, which currently limits religious discrimination in the admissions policies of new faith schools. Read More »
NSS calls for inquiry into Government’s faith schools admissions reform
Posted: Tue, 13 Sep 2016
The National Secular Society has written to the chair of the Education Select Committee, calling for an inquiry into the Government's plans to abolish the 50% cap on faith-based admissions to free schools. Read More »
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