An Islamic schools trust praised for promoting British values is facing questions from the charity watchdog after branding gay people as “evil”.
The Charity Commission has launched a compliance case into the Abu Bakr Trust, which runs three schools and a nursery in Walsall, in the West Midlands, after staff used social media channels to promote anti-gay views.
While one of its schools, which are independent but have received government grants, was found to be inadequate at the last inspection, another was praised by Ofsted for promoting equality and British values. The Telegraph can reveal that just months after the inspection last year the trust posted on Facebook that accepting homosexuality was part of “a fallen culture” and shared a video which said that “when homosexuality is praised and elevated you know the culture has fallen.”
