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Sect backs away from school ban

Equalities body may take action as Education Secretary launches probe

June 5, 2015 10:16
Families in Stamford Hill

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

3 min read

The Chasidic group that announced a ban on accepting children into its schools if their mothers drive has begun to backtrack.

The Belz sect, which warned in a letter to parents last month that the children of women drivers would be barred from its schools next term, had come under mounting pressure from Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

But Ahron Klein, chief executive of the main Belz boys school, Machzikei Hadass, said on Wednesday that the letter had been not been approved by the school's governors.