Title: "The first step is to shine a full light on it" | Tim Dieppe on the grooming gangs scandal, with United Christian Broadcasters Description: Head of Public Policy Tim Dieppe speaks to United Christian Broadcasters about the grooming gangs scandal, and the withdrawal of the man who was thought to be the only remaining candidate to chair the government's inquiry. Wednesday 22 October 2025

The Darlington Nurses' employment tribunal begins in Newcastle https://christianconcern.com/cccases/darlington-nurses/ BBC Radio 4 22/10/25

This week, hundreds of thousands of students received their grades - but just how important are children’s academic results? Head of Education Steve Beegoo spoke to United Christian Broadcasters this week about results day, and reminds parents that academic results, while important, are not as important as the need to disciple our children in the ways of the Lord Jesus.

Pastor Tunde Balogun spoke with Premier Christian Radio about his church's legal victory, after successfully overturning a controversial Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that effectively criminalised its Christian outreach ministry. Read more: https://christianconcern.com/news/church-overturns-ban-on-outreach-ministry-in-uxbridge/

Aliya Abbasi, mother of Zainab Abbasi, spoke to BBC Radio 4 after a landmark win for open justice at the Supreme Court this week. For seven years now, the Christian Legal Centre has been supporting Rashid and Aliya Abbasi, and Lanre Haastrup in challenging the Court's permanent gagging orders which prevented them from naming doctors involved in their children's end of life care and tragic passing. Read more about the judgment and watch their statements: https://christianconcern.com/news/supreme-court-win-for-parents-over-secretive-end-of-life-practices/

This week at the High Court, the government will face a judicial review of its unprecedented VAT policies on private and independent Christian schools. The government’s decision to impose VAT on the provision of education by independent schools has made the UK an outlier among the 46 Council of Europe states. Supported by the Christian Legal Centre, Christian schools, parents and pupils are bringing the challenge from the award-winning Emmanuel School in Derby, the Branch Christian School in Yorkshire, the King’s School in Hampshire and the Wyclif Independent Christian School in South Wales. Find out more: https://christianconcern.com/news/government-to-face-judicial-review-from-christian-schools-over-vat-tax-raid/

"You must look at what the words actually mean, not how the reader may illegitimately receive it. "Now it falls on the employer to show that she wrecked their reputation. It falls on the employer to show that what she was doing was manifestly wrong. And that's a much better standard." Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern, spoke with Trevor Phillips on Times Radio about Kristie Higgs' win at the Court of Appeal and what it means for Christian freedoms. Read more about Kristie's case: https://christianconcern.com/news/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

"It is incredible that Kristie’s case had to go all the way up to the Court of Appeal in order to show she had been discriminated against." Tim Dieppe spoke to Nick Ferrari on LBC about Kristie Higgs' vindication and the many other Christians in the UK who undergo persecution for their Christian faith. Read about her six-year long case here: https://christianconcern.com/news/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

Steve Beegoo, Head of Education at Christian Concern, was on Premier Christian Radio offering advice to parents on how to love and guide their children if they are being bullied in school. He shares about how parents can respond in a godly way if their children have been found to be bullying others, and how important it is for parents and children to share a heartfelt connection. Have a look at our new education website where you can find resources and updates: https://education.christianconcern.com/

Michael Phillips, who defended Kristie Higgs in her landmark free speech case, was on Times Radio with Rod Liddle. Last week, after a dramatic six-year battle, the Court of Appeal ruled in Kristie's favour, resetting the legal landscape on freedom of speech and religion in the workplace. Rod Liddle by the sheer number of Christians contacting the Christian Legal Centre for help because they had been put out of job for saying or posting something which appeared offensive. Read more about Kristie's win here: https://christianconcern.com/ccpressreleases/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

VICTORY FOR FREEDOM - KRISTIE HIGGS WINS The Court of Appeal has reversed a ruling which defended the dismissal of Kristie Higgs from Farmor’s School in Gloucestershire for raising concern on Facebook about extreme sex education and transgender ideology being taught in her son's Church of England primary school. Roger Kiska, Legal Counsel at the Christian Legal Centre, was on LBC with Tom Swarbrick discussing the groundbreaking decision which re-shapes the law on freedom of religion in the workplace. Read about Kristie's win here: https://christianconcern.com/news/kristie-higgs-wins-as-court-of-appeal-rules-dismissal-for-free-speech-is-illegal/

Tim Dieppe spoke with Ben Kentish on LBC about Kristie Higgs' win after a dramatic six-year legal battle supported by the Christian Legal Centre. He argued that biblical teaching of marriage is worth defending especially in schools, and that respecting views which contradict God's word does not necessarily mean agreeing with them.

Roger Kiska, Legal Counsel to the Christian Legal Centre, spoke with Martin Stanford about the high-profile and seminal legal case of sacked Christian school assistant, Kristie Higgs. They discussed just before the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment on Wednesday, 12 February. Culminating a six-year legal battle, supported from the beginning by the Christian Legal Centre, the judgment would shape the law for years to come on free speech and freedom to express faith in the UK. In 2019, Mrs Higgs was sacked for gross misconduct by Farmor’s Secondary School in Gloucestershire, and had her Christian beliefs compared to Neo-Nazism, for two Facebook posts. Read about her case here: https://christianconcern.com/cccases/kristie-higgs/

Becki Bruneau is a Christian psychotherapist, county councillor, wife and mother, who has overcome life-threatening illnesses as a child and adult. And Becki is against the government’s proposed assisted suicide bill. Becki, from Kent, spoke to United Christian Broadcast on 31 January 2025, highlighting the risks of coercion in the bill, and how, if made law, assisted suicide would prey on vulnerable people. Read more: https://christianconcern.com/news/overcomer-of-cancer-and-brain-injury-speaks-out-against-assisted-suicide/

Stephen White, 40, shares on Premier Christian Radio about the many sacrifices made in order to provide his son Josiah, 14, with a Christian education. He is one of 13 claimants supported by the Christian Legal Centre who have launched an application for a judicial review over the government’s VAT tax raid on private and independent schools. Those bringing the challenge include the award-winning Emmanuel School in Derby, the Branch Christian School in Yorkshire, the King’s School in Hampshire and the Wyclif Independent Christian School in South Wales. Read more about the case: https://christianconcern.com/news/education-freedom-at-stake-as-christians-launch-legal-action/

Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, was on Premier Christian Radio speaking about Gozen Soydag, a social media influencer and education behavioural specialist whose case will be heard at an employment tribunal this week. Gozen's social media accounts, which champion Biblical marriage and purity, were censored by St Anne’s Catholic High School for Girls before she was sacked on her birthday and ordered to leave the school premises without pay. Read more about it: https://christianconcern.com/news/school-pastoral-manager-sacked-for-marriage-beliefs/

Andrea Williams was on LBC speaking to Tom Swarbrick about the Christian footballer, Marc Guéhi who was criticised, pressurised and punished for loving Jesus and expressing Christian beliefs in public. What he is facing is not a new theme for us and gets to the heart of many of the biggest legal cases the Christian Legal Centre supports. Find out more: https://x.com/CConcern/status/1864334423912583405

Tim Dieppe talked to Premier Christian Radio to explain the ramifications of Kim Leadbeater's assisted suicide Bill and discuss the conflict between creating a culture of death and enabling people to live well.

Becki Bruneau, a Christian psychotherapist, county councillor, wife and mother, who has overcome life-threatening illnesses as a child and adult, was on Premier Christian Radio sharing her remarkable life testimony. Having said to her husband "Let me die" during a time of deep pain, she now speaks out against the government’s proposed assisted suicide bill, which would 'prey on the vulnerable'. The bill has its second reading in Parliament this Friday, 29 November. Read more: https://christianconcern.com/news/overcomer-of-cancer-and-brain-injury-speaks-out-against-assisted-suicide/

Church of England chaplain Rev. Dr Bernard Randall spoke to Martin Stanford on LBC this morning. He is pursuing a judicial review of a decision not to allow a disciplinary case to proceed against the Bishop Libby Lane, who was found to have wrongly blacklisted him as a safeguarding risk for giving a sermon on identity politics. Before seeking permission for a judicial review, Dr Randall also handed in a CitizenGO petition signed by more than 40,000 people calling on Justin Welby to apologise and give him his life and career back. Read more here: https://christianconcern.com/news/chaplain-pursues-judicial-review-after-justin-welby-found-plainly-wrong/