The Equality and Human Rights Commission has said that it has received a “satisfactory response” from the two Chasidic schools in North London which had threatened to ban pupils whose mothers drive.

Parents of the independent Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass boys school and the Beis Malka girls school, run by the Belz Chasidic sect in Stamford Hill, were warned last month that it was considered against the rules of modesty for women to drive.

But the EHRC wrote to the schools to say that it would be unlawful to deny children entry on such grounds.

The EHRC said today that "the governors of the Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass School have given the commission a commitment that they will not exclude or refuse admission to any child or apply any other sanction on the basis of their mother driving.

"We are satisfied with their assurance and are pleased to have avoided any potential legal proceedings.”

A similar assurance was received from Beis Malka, the EHRC said.

Beis Malka has recently submitted an application to Hackney Council to become state-aided.