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March 4th, 2021 An exemption to equality law allowing schools in Northern Ireland to employ teachers on religious grounds is ‘perverse’, ‘archaic’, and unfair, members of the Stormont’s Education Committee said yesterday. Northern Ireland Humanists – which campaigns for equal treatment of teachers regardless of religious background – welcomed the comments and said they show it is high time for the exemption to be scrapped. The MLAs’ remarks were made during a presentation of evidence to the Committee about teacher exemption to the Fair Employment and Treatment Order (FETO) by ...

22 NI families claim their special needs children were restrained and injured in school Education Committee deputy chairman, Pat Sheehan, said campaigners' report was harrowing and had echoes of Muckamore Abbey claims Updated Deirdre Shakespeare with son Harry and husband Rodney (Image: Shakespeare family) Want the biggest politics stories sent to you every week? Simply sign up here and we'll do the restInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recom...

Celebrity businesswoman Paris Hilton has made an open appeal to the NI Assembly to introduce tougher laws on when a child can be physically restrained at school, saying there needed to be "meaningful protections for children". Ms Hilton spoke out in support of Harry’s Law, a campaign led by Tyrone mother Deirdre Shakespeare after she realised how much her son Harry was being restrained at his special school after seeing a photo diary of his first year. While permission was granted by Harry's parents for him to be put in a chair at mealtimes, the extent of the use of restraints is now the su...

It's perhaps the most unlikely intervention Stormont has ever witnessed.

A decision by the Education Minister to scrap an algorithm that led to 37% of A-levels being downgraded last summer could have been taken months ago alongside other parts of the UK, a union has said.