Unregistered schools: how many are there?

New Ofsted report says thousands of pupils are enrolled in ‘appalling’ rogue institutions

Koran
Students mainly study religious texts such as the Koran, the Talmud and Torah, or the Bible
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More than 500 suspected illegal schools attended by a total of at least 6,000 pupils have been identified in England over the last three years, according to a new Ofsted report.

The schools inspectorate said that councils across the country are paying “thousands of pounds to send children with behavioural problems to unregistered schools” with poor conditions where pupils “languish”.

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