Last week, in a carefully calculated act of political spite and jockeying for position in his party, Secretary of State for Schools Ed Balls took Jewish voluntary-aided schools to task for having wrongly included in their application forms the information that parents are expected to make voluntary contributions, assuming they have means, to the costs of religious instruction and external security. Apparently, it is OK for them to include the information in their advertising and brochures, but not in their applications forms. Search me why not.
Jewish schools certainly would seem in need of every penny parents of pupils can give them.
continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.