During a hearing by the education select committee on extremism in schools, councillor Brigid Jones, cabinet member for children and family services at Birmingham Council, said the DfE blocked the authority’s initial bid to install an interim executive board (IEB) at Al-Hijrah School “several months ago”.
She said the council was concerned about the behaviour of the school’s governing body and had serious concerns about its “severe financial deficit”, and what the money was being spent on.
The council appealed the decision and former Education Secretary Michael Gove eventually approved the IEB in May after Ofsted published a damning report.
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