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Humanists UK welcomes Ofsted’s call to tackle illegal schools and improve RE

Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »

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Westminster to debate privacy rules
Second chance for MPs’ FoI exemption

Legislation that would exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act will gain a second chance of passing into law this week. In a highly atypical move, Conservative MP David Maclean’s private members’ bill will return to the Commons just a week after being ‘talked-out’. The bill would exempt MPs from the FoI Act…. Read more »

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Parliament is still obliged to release information under the Freedom of Information Act
MPs not exempt from Freedom of Information Act

A private members’ bill by the former Tory chief whip David Maclean which would have exempted MPs from freedom of information enquiries has been blocked by a collection of MPs from all parties. Lib Dem MP Norman Baker and a handful of others succeeded in ‘talking out’ the bill by discussing it for five hours…. Read more »