Member

The contention of the Haredi community is that their children are home-educated and that, in addition, the older male children receive an extensive and intensive religious upbringing in the yeshivas. Are the Government prepared to live with the idea that religious education outside school, whether provided to children who attend school or who are home-educated, is outwith the reach of the independent schools regulations in the Bill? If the Government wish to regulate religious education, how do they propose to constrain the content of such education? A requirement that the education is not inimical to the life of the nation might be reasonable —yeshivas would pass that easily—but I would like to hear the Government’s position.