PLANS to celebrate 100 years of state-funded Catholic education in Glasgow have been slammed.

Lord Provost Eva Bolander will host a civic reception later this year to mark the centenary of the Education (Scotland) Act 1918, which introduced public funding to Catholic schools.

Church bosses have welcomed the move, insisting that faith schools are good for Scotland.

But campaign group, the Scottish Secular Society, have hit out at the move, claiming that Catholic schools should be scrapped.