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Posted: Fri, 21 Jun 2019
NSS backs home school register to protect child rights
The NSS has backed a registration system for children who do not attend state-funded or registered independent schools.
Posted: Tue, 02 Apr 2019
NSS welcomes home education reform and registration scheme
The NSS has welcomed a government plan requiring local authorities and families to register children outside mainstream education.
Posted: Thu, 07 Mar 2019
Out-of-school settings code should be mandatory, NSS tells DfE
The NSS has said a code of practice for out-of-school educational settings should be mandatory in response to a government consultation.
Posted: Wed, 20 Feb 2019
Dissenting Orthodox Jew Izzy Posen to speak at Secularism 2019
Izzy Posen, who dissented from his upbringing in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, will speak at the NSS's Secularism 2019 conference.
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019
Government to crack down on illegal and failing independent schools
The NSS has welcomed government plans to promote integration by legislating against unregistered and failing independent schools.
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A government plan on integration sets out a positive vision on education - but faith schools remain the elephant in the room. Alastair Lichten asks if ministers' actions will match their rhetoric.
Integrated communities require inclusive, secular schools
Posted: Tue, 12 Feb 2019
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We can’t build a shared society around segregated schools
Posted: Thu, 15 Mar 2018
As a trial reveals the brainwashing of boys during evening classes at a mosque in Barking, Stephen Evans says the Government should defy faith groups which resist the regulation of out-of-school educational...
We can’t allow faith groups to hamper efforts to regulate supplementary schools
Posted: Mon, 12 Feb 2018
The Government is preparing to extend religious selection in faith schools. Keith Sharpe contrasts its willingness to cause greater segregation with French efforts to encourage integration in the wake...
Schools and segregation: a lesson from France
Posted: Tue, 30 Jan 2018
As supporters of a new Bill aim to see home schooling in England registered for the first time, education and schools campaigner Alastair Lichten says children's independent rights must receive greater...
Home schooling debate must prompt wider discussion of children’s rights
Posted: Thu, 30 Nov 2017