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We can provide any of the resources on our website, including: badges, leaflets, posters and publications.
NSS Publications
For the public benefit? The case for removing ‘the advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose
Sun, 17th Mar 2019
Charities must have 'charitable purposes' that demonstrate how they provide a public benefit. The benefit provided by most of the 13 'charitable purposes' set out in the Charities Act 2011 is clear. The benefits of relieving poverty, promoting good health, saving lives and protecting the environment are obvious to all. But the public benefit of "the advancement of religion" is highly contestable.
The choice delusion: how faith schools restrict primary school choice in England
Sat, 1st Dec 2018
State support for faith-based schooling is often justified in terms of parental choice. This report unravels the narrative around school choice, highlighting the many areas where families have little reasonable choice but a faith school and those assigned faith schools against their wishes. It also questions whether the "choice" of faith schools are a reasonable expectation consistent with the state's duty to provide education.
Unsafe Sex Education: The risk of letting religious schools teach within the tenets of their faith
Mon, 30th Apr 2018
This study examined the SRE policies of faith based secondary schools, the majority of which are explicitly delivering SRE within the tenets of their faith, rather than in an impartial and secular framework that would generally be found at non-faith schools. Although SRE policies vary greatly from school to school, in many cases they amount to the promotion of a particular religious ideology within attitudes to sex and relationships.
NSS Disestablishment Report 2017
Mon, 11th Dec 2017
This report outlines the central arguments for a separation of church and state and considers the challenges involved in making this a reality. It argues that disestablishment is right both as a basic matter of principle and in order to make the UK more representative of the changing landscape of religion and belief.
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