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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 »
NSS calls for rethink over Government plans to relax faith schools admissions rules
Posted: Fri, 09 Sep 2016
The National Secular Society has urged the Government to rethink plans to allow new faith schools to select all of their pupils on the basis of faith. Read More »
NSS criticise Church plan to open 125 new free schools
Posted: Mon, 11 Jul 2016
The Church of England is planning to bid for control of more than one quarter of the new free schools announced by the Government. Read More »
Church ‘using academisation to increase religious influence in schools’
Posted: Fri, 17 Jun 2016
The NSS has written to the Department for Education over concerns that the Church of England is using academisation to strengthen its influence in schools – over the objections of school governors. Read More »
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