Birmingham city council has been accused of failing to learn the lessons of the Trojan horse scandal after its equality chief challenged a school for stopping a four-year-old girl from wearing an Islamic headscarf.
Dame Louise Casey, the government’s integration tsar, has written to the leader of the Labour-run council to condemn the “grossly unfair and undue” actions of the senior councillor.
In a letter seen by The Times, Dame Louise warned of a repeat of the scandal when aggressive school governors in the city tried to impose an intolerant Islamic ethos on head teachers. She said: “I do question whether sufficient lessons have been learnt.” [The Times (£)] Read more
