Labour caves in to the churches
By Pat Murphy, Leeds NUT The government is all over the place on the issue of faith schools. On the one hand, a set of prominent Blairite Ministers have been given license to stoke up a debate about the dangers of segregation and the need for “community cohesion”. On the other hand, the government seems to lack the will or the capacity to introduce even the most limited measures to ensure ethnic and religious integration. There is no clearer example of this than the recent debacle over faith schools. Secretary of State for Education, Alan Johnson, chose the school half-term to announce that he...