The commission also disqualified former trustee Dr Karim Aboutayab for four years and six months after finding he had a ...

DUP and Sinn Féin's resistance to integrated schools betrays their fear of meaningful unity between Catholics and Protestants, says.

Labour peer Harriet Harman has tabled an amendment to the Hereditary Peers Bill which would remove the 26 seats automatically ...

A fresh bid has been made to remove automatic seats for bishops in the House of Lords through the hereditary peers bill.

Mandatory religious observance in schools is incompatible with UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, NSS tells Scottish ...

Calls come as ex-doctor sentenced to 5 years in prison for child cruelty and actual bodily harm related to ritual ...

The National Secular Society is a democratic organisation, governed by an elected Council of Management. The day-to-day running of the organisation is delegated to the chief executive officer, who is ...

NSS says committee must ensure schools bill does not become "a vehicle for greater religious discrimination and segregation" ...

Faith schools undermine equality, choice and social cohesion. Let's build an inclusive education system today, to ensure an inclusive society tomorrow. Our education system should be open and ...

A survey this month by property website Zoopla, reported in The Times today, found 28% of parents were "lying, bending rules or playing the system" to secure a place at a state school. Out of those, ...

Twenty-six Anglican bishops are given seats as of right in the House of Lords. This is unfair, undemocratic and undesirable. It's time to abolish the bishops' bench. Two archbishops and 24 bishops of ...

We want to see laws requiring schools to hold acts of worship abolished. The laws are archaic, unnecessary and breach children's freedom of religion or belief. The United Kingdom is the only Western ...