13 July 2017
The Birmingham Muslim school penalised by Ofsted for segregating boys and girls from the age of nine has been named as Al-Hijrah, after a ban on identifying it was lifted by judges shortly before a Court of Appeal case was due to begin this week.
The court will hear Ofsted’s appeal against a High Court judge’s ruling that the publicly-funded school had not been unlawfully discriminatory. In a statement, feminist groups Southall Black Sisters and Inspire, which are intervening in the case, said: ‘This is a significant and potentially precedent-setting case about sex discrimination and equality. ’
