Tags: Wales
Welsh faith schools will have to offer reformed syllabus on religion
Posted: Tue, 05 May 2020
Wales's faith schools will have to offer a non-denominational religion, values and ethics syllabus if parents request it under new plans. Read More »
NSS refused permission to challenge faith school expansion in Wales
Posted: Mon, 03 Feb 2020
The NSS has been refused permission for a judicial review against Vale of Glamorgan Council over a Church in Wales school's expansion. Read More »
Parents set to lose right to withdraw children from RE in Wales
Posted: Tue, 21 Jan 2020
The Welsh government plans to remove parents' right to withdraw children from lessons on religion and to rename religious education. Read More »
Don’t remove right to withdraw from RE, NSS urges Welsh ministers
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education. Read More »
Welsh government considers ending right to withdraw from RE & RSE
Posted: Thu, 03 Oct 2019
The Welsh government is consulting on plans to end parents' right to withdraw children from classes on religion, relationships and sex. Read More »
NSS broadly welcomes changes to RE and RSE in Welsh curriculum
Posted: Wed, 01 May 2019
The NSS has expressed broad support for reforms to the teaching of religion, relationships and sex in the new curriculum for schools in Wales. Read More »
NSS expresses support for RE and RSE reform in Wales
Posted: Fri, 29 Mar 2019
The NSS has expressed qualified support for proposed reforms to religious education and relationships and sexuality education in Wales. Read More »
Welsh government to put non-religious worldviews on curriculum
Posted: Tue, 29 Jan 2019
Wales's government will include non-religious worldviews in its curriculum and allow non-religious representatives on RE advisory bodies. Read More »
Welsh faith schools will keep distorting sex education, NSS warns
Posted: Fri, 25 May 2018
Allowing Welsh faith schools to teach sex education through a religious lens will distort the subject and teach children to be ashamed, the National Secular Society has warned.
In a letter to Kirsty Williams, the cabinet secretary for education in Wales, the... Read More »
Row over ‘discriminatory, unproductive’ SACRE members in south Wales
Posted: Thu, 26 Apr 2018
The NSS has restated its call for the abolition of local religious education committees amid complaints over a committee in south Wales. Read More »
Vast majority of Welsh councils no longer hold prayers during meetings
Posted: Sun, 23 Jul 2017
Councils across Wales no longer hold prayers as part of their official business after the National Secular Society won a court battle over the practice. Read More »
Welsh students launch petition against collective worship
Posted: Fri, 21 Apr 2017
Two Welsh school students have launched a petition calling on Welsh Assembly Members to end the obligation on schools to hold collective worship. Read More »
Success! Gwynedd Council rethinks plan to impose church school on community
Posted: Tue, 14 Feb 2017
Plans for a new 'super school' in Bala to have a religious designation have been shelved following widespread opposition to the proposal. Read More »
Non-religious parents will be disadvantaged by new faith school, NSS tells Council
Posted: Thu, 02 Feb 2017
The NSS has warned Powys Council that significant numbers of non-religious parents and young people will be disadvantaged under plans to replace existing schools with a faith school. Read More »
Local community rallies against religious ethos for new school
Posted: Tue, 17 Jan 2017
Hundreds of people have protested against a new school in Bala having a Church in Wales ethos, and a local councillor has called on the Church to back away from the project. Read More »
NSS welcomes Welsh Government plans to reform RE
Posted: Wed, 19 Aug 2015
The National Secular Society has written to Huw Lewis, the Welsh Education Minister, in support of his plans to reform RE and rename the subject "religion, philosophy and ethics". Read More »
Claim that children's religious freedoms breached by scrapping of free transport to faith schools rejected by secularists
Posted: Mon, 04 Aug 2014
A Conservative Assembly Member for South Wales has claimed that not providing free transport to faith schools breaches a child's right to manifest a religion. Read More »
