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Protest the Pope to attend London Pride
BHA news - Thu, 01/07/2010 - 01:00
Supporters of the Protest the Pope campaign will be marching in the London Pride parade this Saturday to highlight the effect of the Vaticans anti-homosexual policies on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. The group of walkers will be handing out leaflets detailing the Popes opinion on homosexuality and giving out stickers stating No State Visit.
Andrew Copson, speaker for Protest the Pope Campaign, explained, The Popes attitude to lesbian and gay people is just one of the many stances that the Vatican State holds which are damaging to human dignity and human rights. Its opinions on AIDS, condom use and abortion have far reaching and devastating effects on the lives and human rights of millions more people.
In many counties around the world, the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals are effectively negated because of the pressure that the Catholic Church puts on governments. The head of the Vatican State should not be afforded the honour of a state visit and it is this message which we will be highlighting at London Pride.
Categories: Humanism
An opportunity to end compulsory collective worship?
BHA news - Thu, 01/07/2010 - 01:00
A suggestion to repeal the law requiring compulsory collective worship in UK schools became the most popular idea on a new website launched today by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Your Freedom. The government website has a section on civil liberties where people can make suggestions of laws which they want to see repealed and comment on the suggestions of other participants. Scrapping the law on collective worship in schools became the most rated idea within an hour of being submitted.
BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson stated, If the government wishes to free schools from prescriptive legal regimes, then it is difficult to see why the law on collective worship, which requires all schools to hold a daily act of worship, should not be one of the first laws to be thrown on the bonfire.
Teachers, parents and pupils themselves have repeatedly opposed this legal requirement, infringing as it does on young peoples rights to freedom of belief by forcing them to pray or worship in other ways. It is no wonder that getting rid of that law was immediately the most popular on the governments website as a bad law that restricts freedom.
Categories: Humanism
Humanist group in Parliament re-launches with packed out meeting
BHA news - Thu, 01/07/2010 - 01:00
MPs, Peers and members staff filled the room for last nights inaugural meeting in 2010 of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG), with a number ducking out of other meetings and parliamentary business to ensure they could attend. The APPHG brings together non-religious MPs and Peers from all three main parties, as well as members from the crossbenches in the Lords, and since 2006 has maintained the prestigious All-Party status.
The meeting opened with its AGM and election of officers. The Rt Hon Lord Macdonald of Tradeston stood down as chair after presiding over an incredibly successful 5 years for the Group, with former Minister Lord Warner, taking over as chair. The Group welcomed the re-election of Kelvin Hopkins MP, Lord Taverne, Baroness Flather and Lord McIntosh as officers. Dr Julian Huppert MP and Lord Garel-Jones were both elected for the first time as vice chairs, and Baroness Massey, who is currently heavily involved with the Academies Bill representing the humanist position, was elected as secretary.
Following the AGM, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson addressed the Group, outlining the challenges and opportunities posed for humanists in parliament by the coalition governments programme. In particular, constitutional reform, education and public services were flagged up as key issues for members of the Group to get involved in over the coming year. Speaking on education, Mr Copson said that the Group had reason to be concerned about the religious aspects of mass deregulation but also said it was a great chance to get rid of the unnecessary, outdated and prescriptive laws and rules such as those on compulsory worship in schools.
Categories: Humanism
Humanists welcome doctors call to stop NHS funding of homeopathy
BHA news - Tue, 29/06/2010 - 01:00
The NHS must stop funding homeopathy, doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) annual conference have said today. Doctors voted 3 to 1 to ban NHS funding for homeopathic remedies.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, said, We support the BMA in todays clear call to stop the NHS funding homeopathy. It is outrageous that NHS is funding the provision and testing of treatments that have no evidential basis in their claims of effectiveness.
We are working with other organisations, as well as our membership and supporters, to campaign to ensure that NHS funding is not directed towards treatments such as homeopathic ones that have not been proven to work, or on research that is not backed up by scientific evidence.
Ms Phillips continued, Whether NHS or privately funded, it is also our position that where homeopathic products are sold in pharmacies, pharmacists have a duty to tell patients that homeopathic products and treatments are not effective.
Categories: Humanism
Over 300 'faith schools' register their interest in academy status
BHA news - Mon, 28/06/2010 - 01:00
The BHA has expressed alarm at the number of 'faith schools' registering their interest in converting to academies, warning that academy status would give religious groups greater control over schools.
Over 300 schools run by religious groups have formally registered their interest in converting to academy status with the Department for Education. In addition to 200 Church of England and 100 Roman Catholic schools, the list includes Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Steiner and "Sathya Sai" schools. Many of the schools run by the minority religions, and some Christian schools, are currently independent fee-paying institutions.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, commented:
'All state-funded faith schools becoming academies will automatically become religious academies, meaning that in addition to complete powers over the curriculum, their discriminatory admissions and employments policies will not only be preserved intact but will be enlarged.'
'This religious discrimination and privilege will be permanently locked into a system which makes no allowance and has no scope for consultation with parents and local people. The effect of the changes will be to increase control by religious groups even further in these schools and remove the moderating influence of the state and the local community.'
Addressing the issue of private 'faith schools' becoming state-funded academies, Mr Copson continued:
Many private 'faith schools' have traditionally resisted state funding, knowing that this would bring restrictions on what they could teach, and some may not have met the criteria required to gain maintained status. The Academies Bill as it stands would remove these restrictions, allowing schools to digress from the national curriculum and teach to their own syllabus. It is no wonder academy status is so appealing to religious groups currently running fee-paying schools - it would give them complete powers over the curriculum while unburdening them from the need to raise their own funds.
Categories: Humanism
BHA celebrates successful Humanist Week
BHA news - Mon, 28/06/2010 - 01:00
The BHA has today confirmed that they are already planning for Humanist Week 2011 after a successful week in 2010. For Humanist Week 2010 (last week) over 90 packs of materials were sent out to people who wanted to celebrate Humanism in their local communities. As well as this, the BHA held an event jointly with the South Place Ethical Society on Humanism, Philosophy and the Arts which attracted over 100 people. The theme of the week was Humanist Heritage.
Pepper Harow, Campaigns Officer, stated, We are very pleased with how the week went this year. People really got into the spirit of the theme, sending in their humanist heroes, organising events and setting up the displays.
The website that was set up as the weeks legacy, www.humanistheritage.org.uk is growing in content and we were also pleased to announce the opening of our archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. We are already looking forward to next years week.
Categories: Humanism
Second Mayor to stop council prayers
BHA news - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 01:00
The BHA has voiced its support for a second Mayor who has decided to stop the practice of opening official council meetings with Christian prayers. Writing in a newsletter for the Leicester Secular Society, which is affiliated to the BHA, the Lord Mayor of Leicester Councillor Colin Hall said he was delighted to confirm that I will be exercising my discretion as Lord Mayor to abolish the outdated, unnecessary and intrusive practice. The new Mayor has also appointed Allan Hayes, president of Leicester Secular Society and a trustee of the BHA as a Humanist Chaplain to assist him in his work.
In addition, the Mayor decided not to attend the official civic service to welcome him as Mayor as his requests to allow speakers from different religions or beliefs (rather than just Church of England) were denied.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, stated, We are very pleased that the Mayor of Leicester is taking such an inclusive approach to his term of office. It should not be compulsory to perform an act of Christian worship through prayer to become part of the democratic systems of the UK. Having prayers before council meetings is divisive and likely to exclude those of other beliefs.
By appointing a Humanist to fulfil the usual duties of a Mayors chaplain, and asking for his welcoming ceremony to be inclusive of all beliefs, the Mayor is proving that the apparatus of the state has to be religiously neutral and fair. The BHA wishes him well in his position.
Categories: Humanism
Humanist peers voice BHA concerns over Academies Bill
BHA news - Fri, 25/06/2010 - 01:00
The BHAs concerns over the governments new academies programme were raised in parliament when humanist peers spoke in the Lords committee stage debate on the Academies Bill.
In the debate held on 23rd June, BHA distinguished supporter Baroness Massey spoke passionately on curriculum issues, including making the case that all Academies, including those run by religious groups, should be required to teach 'the precepts of humanism and secularism' alongside religious beliefs. Baroness Thornton agreed, saying 'I am a humanist, and I know that humanism has moral and ethical precepts and a compassionate culture.' Baroness Whitaker took the opportunity to declare her support for the BHA, saying 'I, too, am a humanist. Indeed, I am now a vice-president of the association'.
Baroness Massey went on to argue against the provisions of the Bill that will make it compulsory for state-funded religious schools which apply for academy status to become religious academies. The BHA is particularly concerned about this aspect of the Bill as there are no analogous protections for community schools to always become inclusive secular Academies.
Peers who are not associated with the All Party Humanist Group in parliament also expressed concern about faith schools converting to religious Academies, particularly focusing on their potential for division and the teaching of unbalanced curricula.
Lord Baker, Conservative peer and former Secretary of State for Education and Science, maintained that 'it is sensible for children of different faiths to sit, play and eat alongside each other in school and to go home on the bus together' while Lord Lucas asserted that 'even in schools that are of a firmly religious character, children should be taught about the precepts and practices of other religions and I agree - humanism'.
The debate went on to cover the Academies Bill in relation to equalities legislation, particularly with regard to employment and admissions policies. Humanist peers argued that without amendment the Bill could greatly extend the religious discrimination that many "faith schools" are currently entitled to exercise.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, For the BHA, the Academies Bill represents a real step-change in policy that, without the amendments which we are seeking, could entrench irreversible religious privilege in our schools system. We are working closely with parliamentarians from all parties on this issue, ensuring they are fully briefed on our key concerns and that the voice of humanists is heard in the legislative process. Working with our supporters in parliament is an important way in which we can set the context and agenda for the debate.
Categories: Humanism
Bishop wants to give religious authorities even more control over state-funded schools
BHA news - Wed, 23/06/2010 - 01:00
Attempt to hand more control of state-funded schools to religious groups shows education is not Bishops primary concern, the BHA has said today.
The Lord Bishop of Lincoln, who sits in the House of Lords as of right as one of the Lords Spiritual, has tabled a number of amendments to the Academies Bill, all of which seek to increase the power and control of religious groups running new Academies. For example, the House of Lords will debate amendments that would give religious authorities total control over choosing who can be a governor of a religious Academy, and that Academies' constitutions must satisfy the requirements of whichever religious authority runs the school.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, commented, Even unamended, the Academies Bill is a massive de-regulation of public education, which provides no protection for children against unsound education in religious interests, will increase the amount of money paid by the public to religious schools, and permanently removes the possibility for state-funded religious schools to choose to become inclusive Academies. To increase control by religious groups even further in these schools is clearly not in the best interests of children or parents but of religious groups who want an even tighter grip on our education system.
Categories: Humanism
Humanism, Philosophy and the Arts day conference in London
BHA news - Wed, 23/06/2010 - 01:00
The second annual Humanist Week conference of the British Humanist Association (BHA) will focus on Humanism, philosophy and the arts on 26th June 2010. The event is being run jointly with the South Place Ethical Society.
The speakers for the day include Julian Baggini, philosopher and co-founder of The Philosophers' Magazine, poet Alan Brownjohn, moral philosopher and Vice-President of the BHA Richard Norman, award winning cartoonist Martin Rowson, philosopher Nigel Warburton and Ken Worpole, author of many books on architecture, landscape and public policy.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive said, The arts are a powerful way of reflecting meaning in our lives. This conference seeks to explore questions ranging from the value of art as a whole, to the way we think about film, architecture, literature and the causing of offence. With a line up of wonderful speakers, plus performances of music and poetry it looks like it will prove an enjoyable and thought provoking day.
Categories: Humanism
New Channel 4 religious slot may turn non-religious viewers away from the channel
BHA news - Tue, 22/06/2010 - 01:00
A new religious slot on Channel 4 is an unnecessary promotion of religion, and may turn non-religious viewers away from the channel, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has claimed today. Channel 4 has announced the launch of a new programme called 4Thought to begin in July and shown after the Channel 4 news. It has been compared in the media to BBC Radio 4s Thought for the Day.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, We already have hundreds of hours of time across the main broadcasting channels dedicated to religion, with nothing comparable for non-religious people in the population, including not a single programme for humanists ever broadcast by the BBC. Another prime-time slot dedicated to religion is unnecessary. It may even be as unpopular with non-religious viewers as Thought for the Day, which actively excludes non-religious contributors, and about which thousands of our own supporters have complained and many more just switch off when it is aired. If Channel 4 really want this slot to be diverse, they must reflect the fact that a large and growing proportion of the population is non-religious, in addition to including voices of minority religions and beliefs in the country.
Ms Phillips continued, Channel 4 has historically been more inclusive of non-religious viewpoints and those critical of religion than, for example, the BBC. We will be writing to Channel 4 Chief Executive, David Abraham, with our concerns about this new slot, and for confirmation that they intend to broadcast programmes by and for non-religious people.
Categories: Humanism
Humanist archive open to public
BHA news - Tue, 22/06/2010 - 01:00
The archive of the British Humanist Association (BHA), held at the Bishopsgate Institute in London, is now open to public view for the first time. The collection, housed at the institute since 2007, includes papers from the organisations 114 year history. Its opening to public view comes during the BHAs second annual Humanist Week which is themed around the celebration of humanist heritage.
Chief Executive, Andrew Copson, commented, The humanist movement has a long and fascinating history in Britain. As well as papers relating to the activities of the BHA as we know it today, the archive includes papers from very different times, such as the minutes of our predecessor organisation the Ethical Union, founded in 1896, and the original design for the Happy Human Symbol by Dennis Barrington in 1965, which is now used by humanist organisations worldwide.
We are very pleased to be able to share this resource with historians, students of non-religious history, academics and the public at large.
Stefan Dickers of the Bishopsgate Institute stated, Bishopsgate Institute is delighted that is has been chosen to provide a home for the archive of the British Humanist Association. The collection documents comprehensively the ideas and activities of the British humanist movement from the late nineteenth century to the present day and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students wanting to know more about its history. It is also a wonderfully rich archive, including not only administrative and publicity materials but also photographs, audio/visual material, pamphlets, books and artefacts.
Categories: Humanism
Support for Mayor who has dropped council prayers
BHA news - Tue, 22/06/2010 - 01:00
The BHA has today written to the Mayor of Enfield to express their support for her plan to replace compulsory prayer sessions before council meetings with poetry readings. The move, criticised as anti-religious by one local councillor, has been made to support and encourage the arts.
BHA Campaigns Officer, Pepper Harow, stated, In a pluralist society made up of people with countless religious and non-religious beliefs, it is not the place of the processes and structures of democracy to force councillors to pray. Unfortunately, this is what is happening in some areas of the country where all councillors are expected to attend prayers before council meetings.
By allowing councillors to pray in the Mayors chambers before the meeting if they wish and by bringing poetry readings into the council chamber, the Mayor has made the council neutral and inclusive. This move is to be welcomed and we hope that other councils will make similar moves in future.
Categories: Humanism
BHA celebrates Humanist Heritage
BHA news - Mon, 21/06/2010 - 01:00
Today is World Humanist Day and the British Humanist Association (BHA) has launched its second annual Humanist Week, which aims to increase understanding of, and knowledge about, Humanism. The theme for 2010 is Humanist Heritage, celebrating humanist contributions to British society, across the centuries.
www.humanistheritage.org.uk, a new resource that allows people to upload information about their local area and how it relates to Humanism and celebrate great artistic, scientific and social contributions based on a humanist perspective has been launched by the BHA to start off the week.
The BHA is also running a day conference on Humanism, Philosophy and the Arts and has offered special resources to affiliated local groups. The BHAs sister website www.humanistlife.org.uk will be featuring pieces from distinguished supporters, members and staff about their humanist heroes and the BHA archive at the Bishopsgate Institute is now open to public readers.
BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson, said, Non-religious people continue to make a huge contribution to art, science, social activism and society, yet, as it is rarely done under a humanist banner, it continues to be unrecognised.
This week is about raising awareness of that contribution both now and in the past. From the enlightenment to the foundation of the NHS, and from great figures such as Bertrand Russell to Stephen Fry, Aphra Behn to George Eliot, humanists have made a huge positive impact on life in the UK. Being able to celebrate that at both national and local level makes us incredibly proud and is an antidote to the false but too often repeated dogma that it is a Christian heritage alone on which British society has been built.
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Top scientists and educators call on government to include evolution in all schools
BHA news - Fri, 18/06/2010 - 01:00
Twenty-six of the UKs top scientists and science educators including three Nobel laureates; Richard Dawkins, former professor for the public understanding of science at the University of Oxford; and science education experts James Williams and Revd Professor Michael Reiss, have called on the Government to protect and promote science in the school curriculum, with the specific inclusion of evolution in the primary curriculum.
The joint letter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, was organised by the British Humanist Association (BHA), which itself promotes a rounded curriculum including good science education as part of its educational aims. The letter was organised after key reforms to the primary curriculum, which included evolution for the first time, were dropped just before the election. That inclusion had come about following a similar letter organised last year by the BHA, urging the teaching of science and evolution in all schools.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, said, It was a real victory for good education to have biologys big idea included in the primary science curriculum for the first time last year, and it was with huge disappointment that we saw those reforms lost. The teaching of science equips young people with the skills they need to understand the world around them in a critical way, and opens up the natural environment for inquiry. The skills children learn from science are life-skills and it is of the utmost importance that, whatever reforms are made to schools and curricula, science keeps a central place.
As the central concept underlying biology, we want evolution to have an explicit inclusion in the curriculum in all schools. As increasing numbers of schools such as the new Academies will no longer have to follow the national curriculum, it is imperative that there is a firm basis for teaching evolution and natural selection, not least in light of the threat of creationism in science lessons in some schools.
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Goves Free School plan highly concerning
BHA news - Fri, 18/06/2010 - 01:00
Government plans announced today which will massively deregulate state funded schools have been criticised by the British Humanist Association (BHA) for their potential to increase and permanently lock into the school system religious discrimination against pupils, teachers and parents.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, stated, It is highly concerning to us that so many of these new schools will be religious schools, especially in light of the governments announcement that it will preserve in full the rights of these schools to discriminate against pupils, parents and teachers on the basis of religion. That this new government should not only preserve one of the most unpopular policies of the previous government but extend and worsen its negative impact is a betrayal of our childrens future.
The situation is even more alarming when we take into account the recent reassurance by government to religious lobbies that faith schools can enforce their religious ethos through compulsory worship and through the curriculum, as well as through discrimination. The state-funded education system should not be viewed or used as a vehicle for religious groups to promote their beliefs.
Categories: Humanism
Parliamentarians recognise Humanist contribution
BHA news - Thu, 17/06/2010 - 01:00
In a House of Lords debate yesterday discussing the Big Society and the role of government and civil society in shaping social policy, the role of humanists was recognised by the Acting Shadow Minister to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Lord Hunt OBE. The debate, called by The Lord Bishop of Leicester, had highlighted the work of faith based organisations working with local communities and Lord Hunt explained, It is not just faith-based organisations...we must recognise the value of communities as a whole and the contribution that humanists as well as religious people make.
Pepper Harow, BHA Campaigns Officer, commented, It is great to see the work of non-religious people in communities recognised. There is a myth that religious individuals volunteer more, give more to charity and are more active in local communities but that is simply not the case. We know that non-religious people are hugely active in equality work, education, community development and many other areas.
By labelling community groups with religious affiliations, and then targeting such groups for extra support and funding to the detriment of inclusive, secular organisations, the previous government appeared to split the voluntary sector along religious lines. Only by recognising the contribution to civil society of the voluntary sector as a whole, can the Big Society agenda be truly inclusive.
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Government reassures faith schools that they will still be able to discriminate
BHA news - Thu, 17/06/2010 - 01:00
In a formal response to a parliamentary question on faith schools admissions, the government has made clear it does not intend to prevent current or new faith schools from discriminating in their admissions. The BHA has described this statement as disturbing and as going against previous commitments.
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, commented, The governments statement makes clear that religious discrimination in admissions is here to stay, going against what was implied in the Coalition Agreement, and against an explicit Liberal Democrat policy, that no new schools would be able to discriminate in admissions. State-funded faith schools which discriminate in their admissions are hugely unrepresentative of their local areas, dividing up children and communities along religious, socio-economic and often ethnic lines, creating huge social problems now and in the future.
It is disturbing that the government has gone even further in its statement to reassure faith schools that as well as being able to select on the basis of religion, they can enforce their religious ethos through compulsory worship and through the curriculum. The state-funded education system should not be viewed or used as a vehicle for religious groups to promote their beliefs.
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New guidance supports Good quality lessons in sex and relationships for all pupils from primary school upwards
BHA news - Thu, 17/06/2010 - 01:00
New draft guidance released by The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has argued that all children and young people should be taught effectively about sex and relationships within a planned programme of Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education, starting in primary school. The BHA has welcomed the guidance as a positive step.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, This is very good news as good quality sex and relationships education is proven to reduce unwanted pregnancies and gives young people the information they need to avoid sexually transmitted infections and harmful relationships. These draft recommendations give a strong case for early, effective education in all schools along with adequate training for teachers.
Unfortunately, the guidance also suggests that such education should be appropriate to faith perspectives. This is concerning as we know that some faith schools are very resistant to the idea of teaching balanced sex and relationships education. As the government take the Academies Bill and the Education Bill through Parliament, we will be working with many other groups, including those who work on childrens rights, to make sure that sex and relationships education becomes part of the national curriculum, with no opt outs for religious schools.
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BHA helping to set the agenda for parliamentary work on education
BHA news - Tue, 15/06/2010 - 01:00
In the past week, the BHA has been involved in a number of meetings in parliament to discuss the first part of the coalition governments education policy, the Academies Bill. These meetings with parliamentarians and other civil society organisations follow the first discussion of the Bill in the House of Lords, where the BHAs concerns were raised.
Speaking in the House of Lords on 7th June, Baroness Massey, stated, The Academies Bill forces a state-maintained school with a religious character, a faith school, automatically to become an independent school with that religious character-again, more on this shortly.
Baroness Massey continued, For the first time, this Bill will permit those primary schools that are high performing to become state-funded religious academies. The BHA is concerned that, once a faith school has become such an academy, it will not need to follow the national curriculum. Does this mean that a Catholic academy would be allowed not to teach sexual reproduction in biology or wider sex education? There is the potential for religious authorities to use restrictive teaching in line with their religious ethos. The BHA wants protections to prevent academies from teaching creationism, giving unbalanced religious education and having narrow and subjective teaching across their curriculums. The same concerns apply to whether this Bill will have an impact on the employment of hundreds of teachers, teaching assistants and non-teaching staff who are currently employed by faith schools that then become academies.
Also speaking in the debate, Baroness Murphy drew attention to the problems that faith schools create for social cohesion, stating, Around one-third of all state-funded schools are schools with a religious character or faith schools, and this number is growing, with some minority religions and Christian denominations running new schools or taking control of the increasing numbers of schools in the state sector or of academies. Many faith schools are exclusive, most are divisive, and all are counterintuitive to social cohesion. Despite claims of inclusiveness, many have control of their own admissions, creating school populations that are far from representative of their own populations in religious or socio-economic terms... In addition, many faith schools teach (instruction) instead of the religious education taught in community schools, which I believe is a crucial part of the curriculum.
Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, We work closely with peers and MPs from all parties on our issues and that is one way we seek to make real change, right at the heart of our legislature. It is so important not only to react to events but to influence them right from the very beginning, and working with our supporters in parliament is one way that we try to set the context and agenda for the debate. For us, the Academies Bill represents a real step-change in policy that, without the amendments which we are seeking, could entrench irreversible religious discrimination in the state-funded schools system.
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