Home schools are ‘breeding ground for jihadists’ and ‘should be monitored to curb extremism’, Met chief warns
Met Police counter-terrorism chief Neil Basu has warned unregulated education needs to be monitored more carefully by police
HOME schooling in an area which has seen dozens of arrests for terrorism has jumped by nearly 700 per cent in ten years.
Met Police counter-terrorism chief Neil Basu has warned unregulated education is a breeding ground for jihadists and should be better monitored to curb extremism.
Research by Oxford Home Schooling, through a Freedom of Information request, found the number of kids taught at home in London leapt by 582 per cent in ten years.
The highest jump was in Newham, which rose by 686 per cent, where around 300 kids are home educated.
Hackney was on 323 per cent, Ealing 304 per cent, Brent 214 per cent and Lewisham on 212.
Mr Basu said: “Segregated and isolated communities and unregulated home schooling are a breeding ground for extremism and future terrorism.”
Last year a report on integration by Dame Louise Casey was critical of kids being educated in “unregulated environments”.
Terror expert Prof Anthony Glees told The Sun on Sunday: “The path of Islamisation lies with the education process.”
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A Department for Education spokesman said: “All children must be properly educated.”