Lucy Powell MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responds to Nicky Morgan’s proposals to tackle extremism in schools in England, said: 

“It is important that we equip teachers and parents so that they can help young people to stay safe, and navigate their way through the downsides of new media.

“But warm words from Ministers now mean very little, after they failed to take swift action to close illegal schools, where children were being exposed to narrow curriculums, misogynistic, homophobic and anti-Semitic material, and the Government continues to refuse calls for all children in all state-funded schools to be taught about issues such as staying safe in relationships and online.”