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Parents for Inclusive Education NI have used FOI requests to every primary school, to gather information about organisation providing religious information to pupils. The aim? Better informed parents.

MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

If you’ve been keeping up with mySociety’s posts, it’s probably no surprise that the first thing these stories have in common is that they are all based on Freedom of Information requests — in fact, multiple requests made across many bodies. We often mention how useful Freedom of Information can be in helping campaigns, journalists or individuals to gather information from a variety of sources, to create a dataset that didn’t exist in one place before. Naturally we are all in favour o...