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Thu, 19 Apr 2018
Lords committee: respect the law before “the values of others”
Public policy must put "respect for the law" before "respect for the values of others", a House of Lords committee has said.
Wed, 18 Apr 2018
Broad consensus for reforming RE at NSS event
Experts have called for reform of the way religion and belief issues are taught at an event hosted by the NSS.
Wed, 18 Apr 2018
NSS urges ‘no more faith schools’ as it launches national campaign
The NSS has launched a national campaign dedicated to ending state-funded faith schools, with backers including the historian Dan Snow.
Tue, 17 Apr 2018
Global rights group: forced genital cutting violates medical ethics
The NSS has reiterated its call for an end to forced genital cutting after a global children's rights group strongly criticised it.
Fri, 13 Apr 2018
NSS calls for school integration in NI amid religious polarisation
The NSS has called for action to integrate Northern Ireland's schools after a poll revealed the extent of religious polarisation there.
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Teachers from the ATL union have voted to demand a clampdown on parents selectively withdrawing their children from RE. But Stephen Evans says the right to withdraw should only be scrapped once the subject is reformed.
The row over right of withdrawal highlights the need to reform RE
Fri, 13 Apr 2018
Abridged version of the winding-up speech by lawyer Richard Scorer of Slater and Gordon, also an NSS vice president, at the IICSA inquiry's hearings into the handling of child sexual abuse in the diocese of Chichester.
Bishops must be accountable – and not just to themselves
Fri, 23 Mar 2018
Nick Cohen has skewered the hypocrisy of leftists who apologise for Islamic intolerance, says Chris Sloggett. To defeat it we must assert the value of free speech as the most precious right which citizens share.
What comes after The Silence of the Liberals?
Fri, 16 Mar 2018
Our education and schools officer examines the education proposals in the Government's new integration strategy and argues that they should lead to a wider discussion of children's rights and facing up to the religious segregation rife in education.
We can’t build a shared society around segregated schools
Thu, 15 Mar 2018
As the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse turns its attention to the Church of England, Keith Porteous Wood says it must act on evidence which has highlighted the desperate need to hold the C of E to account.
Church dysfunctionality laid bare by child sexual abuse inquiry
Sun, 11 Mar 2018