(Schools Week) An Islamic girls’ school has launched a legal challenge after being rated “inadequate” because inspectors discovered an “inflammatory leaflet” advertising a conference in 1994 on a bookshelf in the library.
Birchfield Independent Girls’ School, in Birmingham, insisted they had no idea the leaflet was there and it “has no place in our teachings, curriculum or ethos.”
The leaflet dates from 1994, and advertises an Islamic conference held in Wembley stadium that year.
Ofsted found pupils were “not safe from potential radicalisation” and rated safeguarding “ineffective.”
But a spokesperson for the school said: “Sadly, we are not the only faith-based independent school to fall victim to Ofsted’s draconian and inconsistent inspection practices.”
