A senior Ofsted director says he cannot rule out a Trojan Horse-style plot happening in London schools.
Mike Sheridan, Ofsted’s new regional director for London, said one of his biggest challenges was keeping children safe from extremism and sexual exploitation.
However, he said he “doesn’t know” if there was a co-ordinated plot by extremists to seize control of state school governing bodies, as is alleged to have happened in Birmingham.
Mr Sheridan, a former headteacher and Ofsted inspector, took over as London head of Ofsted last month and is responsible for Ofsted’s performance in the capital.
Speaking to the Evening Standard, he said it was vital that schools did not “bury their heads in the sand” about extremism, radicalisation and child sexual exploitation and they must try to identify children at risk. [Evening Standard] Read more
