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Religious influence in schools criticised in House of Lords “religion in public life” debate
Posted: Thu, 27 Nov 2014
The role of religion in schools has come under scrutiny during a House of Lords debate on the role of religion and belief in public life. Read More »
NSS calls on Welsh Government to review compulsory collective worship
Posted: Thu, 30 Oct 2014
The National Secular Society has called on the Welsh government to review the legal requirement on schools to provide worship after parents expressed concern about prayers being imposed on children in non-denominational schools. Read More »
Religion continues to cause disruption in 'Trojan Horse' schools
Posted: Wed, 15 Oct 2014
A school placed in special measures following the Birmingham 'Trojan Horse' affair has received 100 letters from parents requesting that their children be withdrawn from collective worship, it has emerged. Read More »
Lib Dems back proposals to end compulsory worship and faith school discrimination against teachers
Posted: Tue, 07 Oct 2014
Liberal Democrats have voted in support of a motion to abolish compulsory worship in schools and to end religious discrimination against teachers in faith schools. Read More »
Calls for national debate over collective worship requirement in schools
Posted: Wed, 10 Sep 2014
Renewed calls have been made for a national debate about the requirement on schools to hold acts of collective worship. The calls came during an Education Committee evidence session on extremism in schools. Read More »
New petition calls for an end to compulsory worship in schools
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014
With parties developing their education policies ahead of next year's general election, a new petition is calling on the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats to commit to ending compulsory worship in schools. Read More »
Compulsory Christian worship should be reframed as ‘spiritual reflection’, says Church of England education chief
Posted: Tue, 08 Jul 2014
The legal requirement for schools to provide a daily act of 'broadly Christian' collective worship should be replaced with "spiritual reflection" drawing mainly on the Christian faith, the Church of England's head of education has said. Read More »
School governors’ body recommends abolition of collective worship law
Posted: Mon, 30 Jun 2014
The National Governors' Association, which represents 300,000 school governors in England, has become the latest body to recommend that the religious element of daily school assemblies should be scrapped. Read More »
American Christian group demand right to deliver “inspirational messages” in school assemblies
Posted: Tue, 06 Aug 2013
A group promoting fundamentalist Christian values in the United States is demanding the right to deliver "inspirational messages" during public school assemblies. Read More »
Edinburgh secularists back bid to abolish religious observance in schools
Posted: Thu, 21 Feb 2013
An Edinburgh parent has launched a petition requesting that City of Edinburgh Council conducts a local vote to challenge "religious observance" in the city's non-denominational state schools. Read More »
Government confirms school worship guidance can be ignored
Posted: Fri, 09 Nov 2012
The Department for Education has confirmed that its own controversial guidance on collective worship can be ignored by schools. The guidance stipulates that worship in schools "should be concerned with reverence or veneration paid to a divine being or power." Read More »
Lady Massey asks why children are forced into collective worship
Posted: Thu, 29 Mar 2012
Baroness Massey of Darwen has asked a Parliamentary Question in the House of Lords about whether allowing non-religious parents to withdraw their children from collective worship is an adequate alternative to having their children attend worship. Read More »
Church of England schools flouting daily worship law
Posted: Fri, 02 Mar 2012
A survey by The Sunday Times has found that 40% of Church of England 'faith schools' are flouting the law that requires all state funded schools to provide a daily act of collective worship. Read More »
Education Bill: Peers oppose proposals to make worship optional in schools
Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2011
Peers in the House of Lords this week rejected moves to make collective worship in schools optional, rather than compulsory. The amendments were moved by NSS Honorary Associate Lord Avebury during the Report Stage of the Education Bill. Read More »
Proposals to make worship optional in schools rejected by Peers
Posted: Tue, 25 Oct 2011
Peers in the House of Lords have rejected moves to make collective worship in schools optional, rather than compulsory. The amendments, tabled by NSS Honorary Associate Lord Avebury, would have given community schools the freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to hold acts of religious worship. Read More »
Meeting with Education Minister on Collective Worship and Employment
Posted: Fri, 21 Oct 2011
Education Minister Lord Hill received a delegation on 12 October from NSS Honorary Associates Lord Avebury and Baroness Turner and NSS Executive Director Keith Porteous Wood. They discussed amendments both peers had tabled in the Education Bill. Read More »
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