Challenging Religious Privilege
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, 03 Dec 2019
Parents have said two state-funded Jewish schools pressurised them to opt their children out of relationships and sex education.
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
A high court judge's ruling will prevent mainly Muslim protesters from rallying against inclusive education outside a Birmingham school.....
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
The NSS has referred 10 Christadelphian charities to the Charity Commission over concerns that they promote deeply intolerant messages.
Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Inspectors have found an independent Islamic school segregating children by sex, two years after the practice was ruled unlawful.
The General Medical Council has decided not to pursue a case against a GP who was accused of pushing religion on a vulnerable patient. Stephen Evans warns against allowing this exploitative behaviour....
Posted: Tue, 10 Dec 2019
After two parents forced a school trust to provide an alternative to religious assemblies for their children, Alastair Lichten says the law which requires schools to hold acts of worship needs to change....
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Doctors in Britain should follow the lead of those who have declared ritual male circumcision a breach of medical ethics, argues Dr Antony Lempert.
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Megan Manson continues our election analysis of parties' policies on secularist issues. This time she examines the policies of the major parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Posted: Wed, 04 Dec 2019
Megan Manson studies the main UK-wide parties' election manifestos – and says religion will continue to be a dividing force in UK politics during the next parliament.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
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