Tags: Faith Schools
NSS calls on equality body to promote inclusive education
Posted: Wed, 09 Jan 2019
The NSS has called on the Equality and Human Rights Commission to back a secular education system in response to a new strategic plan. Read More »
NSS urges councils to resist religiously selective faith schools
Posted: Fri, 04 Jan 2019
The NSS has urged local education authorities not to open schools which can select all their children based on their families' faith. Read More »
NSS writes to councillors over discretionary faith school transport
Posted: Thu, 20 Dec 2018
The NSS has urged councillors in north Wales to take a decision on school transport based on "equality for all families and taxpayers". Read More »
Most maintained rural primary schools are faith schools, data shows
Posted: Tue, 18 Dec 2018
The NSS has reiterated concerns about parents' lack of access to secular schools in rural areas after an analysis of new official data. Read More »
Faith schools significantly limit choice for many parents, NSS finds
Posted: Sat, 08 Dec 2018
Almost three in ten families in England live in areas where most or all of the local primary schools are faith-based, new National Secular Society research has revealed. Read More »
Two councils may cut preferential transport to faith schools
Posted: Wed, 05 Dec 2018
Councils in Wales and Greater Manchester may cut funding for transport schemes which give children at faith schools special treatment. Read More »
Adjudicator: faith schools may insist families are strictly religious
Posted: Tue, 04 Dec 2018
An adjudicator has said it is "reasonable" for Jewish state schools to expect applicants' families to observe strict religious practices. Read More »
Government commits funding to new 100% selective faith schools
Posted: Thu, 15 Nov 2018
The government has announced funding for a wave of new voluntary aided schools, which can select all their children based on faith. Read More »
C of E services for schools expand by 56% in four years
Posted: Wed, 14 Nov 2018
The NSS has said a rise in the number of children attending C of E school services should prompt "a separation of church and school". Read More »
Scottish government commits to LGBT-inclusive education
Posted: Thu, 08 Nov 2018
The NSS has told the Scottish government it mustn't let religious groups undermine its commitment to LGBT-inclusive education. Read More »
Don't let faith schools distort sex education, warns NSS
Posted: Wed, 07 Nov 2018
The NSS has highlighted the risk that faith groups will continue to distort sex education in response to a government consultation. Read More »
New guidance supports teaching RSE and evolution to young Muslims
Posted: Mon, 05 Nov 2018
Pupils should be taught about evolution, art, and sexual relationships and no child should be forced to wear a hijab, says new guidance by a Muslim advocacy group. Read More »
Let children make their own minds up about religion, says report
Posted: Wed, 10 Oct 2018
The NSS has welcomed an academic report which calls on English state schools to raise children in a religiously neutral manner. Read More »
Ireland lifts discriminatory ‘baptism barrier’ in school admissions
Posted: Thu, 04 Oct 2018
The Irish government has stopped primary schools from discriminating on religious grounds in admissions in almost all cases. Read More »
Scottish Catholic schools to marginalise children who don’t pray
Posted: Mon, 24 Sep 2018
The NSS has criticised a plan to exclude children from nativity plays and fundraising if they are withdrawn from prayers. Read More »
Replace RE with ‘religion and worldviews’, says commission
Posted: Sun, 09 Sep 2018
The NSS has given a "qualified welcome" to recommendations to replace RE with a subject entitled 'Religion and Worldviews' and introduce a national entitlement to it. Read More »
NSS welcomes Lib Dem proposal to end faith schools in Scotland
Posted: Fri, 07 Sep 2018
The NSS has welcomed a proposal by the Scottish Liberal Democrats to pursue a "single secular model of state-funded education". Read More »
Scottish govt commits to faith schools despite religious decline
Posted: Tue, 14 Aug 2018
The Scottish government has told the NSS it has no plans to roll back faith schools as a poll shows Scots are becoming less religious. Read More »
Jewish school may place requirements on families, adjudicator rules
Posted: Thu, 09 Aug 2018
A state school is not breaching the school admissions code by placing demands on families' dress and behaviour, an adjudicator has ruled. Read More »
NSS welcomes Ofsted head’s opposition to faith-based exemptions
Posted: Fri, 27 Jul 2018
The NSS has welcomed the chief inspector of schools in England's expression of opposition to faith-based "carve-outs" in regulations for independent schools. Read More »
