The council said criticisms of its handling of the case of Shamima Begum - whose British citizenship was revoked by the government earlier this year - were "unfair and skewed" and it had some of the "strongest measures" in place to prevent radicalisation.
The comments came as the now 19-year-old's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said he had written to the Home Secretary accusing both the council and the police of failing to protect the Bethnal Green schoolgirl from being radicalised.
In a letter, seen by the BBC, Akunjee said the teenager's family was not told she had been interviewed by police when another girl at the same school left for Syria some months earlier.
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