Birmingham education charity’s unfiled accounts investigated

(BBC) An independent watchdog has launched an investigation into an education charity which has not filed accounts for five years.

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into the Birmingham Education Trust, which is based at the Al-Huda Girls’ School in Saltley.

The trust funds and operates a school which promotes the teaching of Islam to Muslim girls.

The most recent Ofsted report says the school has 45 girls on roll.

In March 2019, the Charity Commission opened a compliance case into the trust to examine its repeated failure to comply with its statutory duty to file its accounts and annual returns.

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