Today 06:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 8 hours ago by C C.)
Naturally, the establishment continues perpetuating the idea of a two-tier system by primarily focusing on the Jewish and Christian schools, merely mentioning the Muslim version. That really doesn't help its compensating mission to demote that populist slogan to myth status in the public eye.
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Thousands of children at risk in ‘dirty and dangerous’ illegal schools, ITV News investigation finds
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-06-16/thou...al-schools
EXCERPTS: There are warnings that thousands of children are being hidden away in suspected illegal or unregistered schools across England, labelled "breeding grounds for extremism", and receiving a substandard education. An ITV News investigation has found some pupils are learning in dangerous, filthy conditions, and being taught by unqualified staff, with many left unable to properly read or write English.
In an exclusive interview, former Chief Inspector of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw said: "If children at these schools are getting a narrow curriculum and don’t have access to the same opportunities as others, then segregation will increase, divisions will increase and extremism will increase."
[...] The former Ofsted boss warned that the government needs to put more funding into what he described as an increasing problem "as people with malign intent" were exploiting legal loopholes. By law, anywhere providing full-time education, defined as 18 hours or more a week, to five or more kids must register as a school and be inspected - but many don’t and go under the radar.
Others use loopholes in the legal definition of a school, claiming that they operate only for a limited number of hours to evade oversight. ITV News has identified more than 20 suspected illegal schools in London, Leicester and Manchester.
[...] Moshi’s sons attend unregistered ‘yeshivas’ in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in London. The main focus is on religious teaching, with boys spending up to 15 hours a day in these settings. [...] He warns that the majority of boys who attend unregistered yeshivas are left illiterate and innumerate at the age of 16. “They don’t learn any skills, nothing," he told ITV News. "No computers, no science, not even basic maths..."
[...] Moshi said that he can’t move his sons to another school, or criticise them publicly, because he’d be ostracised from his community, and he wants to change things from within.
... There have been 1,839 Ofsted investigations into suspected illegal schools over the last decade. The highest number is in London, with 335 investigations, and in Yorkshire, where there have been 266. Of those inspected, almost a fifth were religious schools and predominantly Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
[...] For 10 years, Victor Shafiee headed up Ofsted’s illegal schools team. The horrific conditions he witnessed have never left him. “I found a room next to open sewers, rat droppings, holes on the wall. In disused industrial estates, Dickensian conditions, no access to daylight, no drinking water.”
[...] Because of the shadowy nature of these institutions, estimates vary from 6,000 children in illegal schools across England to tens of thousands, according to one former Ofsted boss. Many sites do not do criminal records checks on staff, some of whom have no background in teaching, according to Ofsted... (MORE - details)
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Thousands of children at risk in ‘dirty and dangerous’ illegal schools, ITV News investigation finds
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-06-16/thou...al-schools
EXCERPTS: There are warnings that thousands of children are being hidden away in suspected illegal or unregistered schools across England, labelled "breeding grounds for extremism", and receiving a substandard education. An ITV News investigation has found some pupils are learning in dangerous, filthy conditions, and being taught by unqualified staff, with many left unable to properly read or write English.
In an exclusive interview, former Chief Inspector of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw said: "If children at these schools are getting a narrow curriculum and don’t have access to the same opportunities as others, then segregation will increase, divisions will increase and extremism will increase."
[...] The former Ofsted boss warned that the government needs to put more funding into what he described as an increasing problem "as people with malign intent" were exploiting legal loopholes. By law, anywhere providing full-time education, defined as 18 hours or more a week, to five or more kids must register as a school and be inspected - but many don’t and go under the radar.
Others use loopholes in the legal definition of a school, claiming that they operate only for a limited number of hours to evade oversight. ITV News has identified more than 20 suspected illegal schools in London, Leicester and Manchester.
[...] Moshi’s sons attend unregistered ‘yeshivas’ in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in London. The main focus is on religious teaching, with boys spending up to 15 hours a day in these settings. [...] He warns that the majority of boys who attend unregistered yeshivas are left illiterate and innumerate at the age of 16. “They don’t learn any skills, nothing," he told ITV News. "No computers, no science, not even basic maths..."
[...] Moshi said that he can’t move his sons to another school, or criticise them publicly, because he’d be ostracised from his community, and he wants to change things from within.
... There have been 1,839 Ofsted investigations into suspected illegal schools over the last decade. The highest number is in London, with 335 investigations, and in Yorkshire, where there have been 266. Of those inspected, almost a fifth were religious schools and predominantly Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
[...] For 10 years, Victor Shafiee headed up Ofsted’s illegal schools team. The horrific conditions he witnessed have never left him. “I found a room next to open sewers, rat droppings, holes on the wall. In disused industrial estates, Dickensian conditions, no access to daylight, no drinking water.”
[...] Because of the shadowy nature of these institutions, estimates vary from 6,000 children in illegal schools across England to tens of thousands, according to one former Ofsted boss. Many sites do not do criminal records checks on staff, some of whom have no background in teaching, according to Ofsted... (MORE - details)