Monthly Archives: February 2018

Moving on from Religion

Moving on from Religion

Clive West has started a Facebook group for people who want to move on from a religious view of life.

He says this group was created to support those who have left religious groups or are doubting if following a religion is for them anymore.

You can see the new Facebook Group here.

 

No Indoctrination – Head of OFSTED

Amanda Spielman
Amanda Spielman – Head of OFSTED

School leaders should promote “muscular liberalism”

The National Secular Society has welcomed a call from the head of education watchdog Ofsted for head teachers to confront religious extremists who “indoctrinate impressionable minds”.

In a speech at the Church of England Foundation for Education Leadership, Amanda Spielman told heads they had a responsibility to “tackle those who actively undermine fundamental British values or equalities law”.

Ms Spielman said school leaders should promote “a muscular liberalism” which “holds no truck for ideologies that want to close minds or narrow opportunity”. She contrasted this with “a passive liberalism that says ‘anything goes’ for fear of causing offence”.

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