An outcry by Christians over plans to register and inspect Sunday schools is forcing the Government to ‘tread carefully’ over the matter, it emerged in mid-January.
During a debate in the House of Lords, Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System, revealed that a consultation on the out-of-school settings plans received 18,000 responses.
The Government’s controversial out-of-school settings plans, engineered by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, are part of a wider Counter-Extremism Strategy.
