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Challenging Religious Privilege
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We call on the Government and all political parties to commit to resuming progress on abolishing chancel repair liability.
Join our campaign for an inclusive and secular education system.
We campaign for the law and the administration of justice to be based on equality, respect for human rights, and on objective evidence.
Public services that are intended for the whole community, especially those funded by public money, should be provided in a secular context.
We campaign on a wide range of topics where religious privilege impacts public life. Including:
For over 150 years we have campaigned for disestablishment, the separation of the C of E and state.
Posted: Tue, 23 Feb 2021
A substantial new analysis of academic research has highlighted significant weaknesses in the arguments for state-funded faith schools.
Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2021
Parents in Somerset could lose a community school as a result of special provisions which protect faith-based schooling.
Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2021
Education around forced marriage should be included in mandatory RSE, including in independent faith schools, campaigners have said.
Posted: Thu, 18 Feb 2021
New proposals could substantially weaken the protection for free speech on religion in the Scottish government's current hate crime bill....
Posted: Thu, 18 Feb 2021
A United Nations committee has questioned laws which require collective worship in UK schools after the NSS raised the issue.
A comprehensive new bank of academic research shows how shaky the main arguments for faith schools are, say its authors Steven Kettell and Rebecca Vernon.
Posted: Tue, 23 Feb 2021
The misery which women and children faced for decades highlights the damage that can be done when states leave religious authority unchecked, says NSS president Keith Porteous Wood.
Posted: Fri, 05 Feb 2021
Theocratic demands for censorship in India and Pakistan reflect attempts to grab power which undermine everyone's religious freedom, says Megan Manson.
Posted: Tue, 02 Feb 2021
Alastair Lichten argues that understanding Christian nationalism is essential to understanding the presidency of Donald Trump and its consequences for the world.
Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 2021
Former headteacher John Mapperley says the school he ran was given a vastly reduced range of options when considering academy status – and he believes the church puts its own interests above those...
Posted: Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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