The government’s flagship free schools are failing to comply with statutory requirements on equality, according to a report.
The study, from the organisation Race on the Agenda (ROTA), found that while equalities legislation requires all schools to meet the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), few free schools are actually doing so.
The report, written by education consultant Bill Bolloten, examined the websites of 78 free schools that opened in 2011 and 2012 and revealed that 87 per cent are not complying with statutory requirements.
It found that only two of the schools are fully meeting the requirement to publish equality information and specific and measurable equality objectives, while 68 of the 78 schools had not published any equality information or objectives at all.
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