Schools told to give Muslim pupils 'hope' to stop them listening to the voices of ISIS that say 'come across to Syria'
- Sir Michael Wilshaw highlights 'shocking' news of youngsters joining ISIS
- Chief Inspector of Schools urges teaching of British Values in lessons
- Blames schools failing to teach pupils they are 'appreciated by society'
Schools
must give Muslim pupils hope for the future to stop them fleeing to
Iraq and Syria to join ISIS, Sir Michael Wilshaw warned today.
The
Chief Inspector of Schools said reports of more British youngsters
travelling to fight with Islamic extremists were 'worrying and shocking'
and blamed schools for failing to teach them that they were
'appreciated by society'.
He
vowed that schools which fail to promote British values will fail their
inspections as part of efforts to prevent youngsters being radicalised.
Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael
Wilshaw said it was 'shocking' that youngsters are joining ISIS and
blamed schools for failing to teach them that they were 'appreciated by
society'
There
are mounting calls for action to tackle the radicalisation of teenagers
and young adults after a family of 12, including children as young as
three, were feared to have fled to Syria.
The
missing dozen, made up of three sisters and their nine children, are
believed to have travelled to the war-torn country, despite being under
extensive police surveillance.
Sir
Michael said the reports were 'worrying and shocking' and said it was
why Ofsted is 'inspecting against British values at the moment'.
He told LBC: 'I think it is a problem. These youngsters need to believe they belong to our society.
'They
need to believe that there's hope for them, that the education system
is there for them, that they will do well in their examinations, that
they will be able to get a job and have a real strong and secure future
in this country and they will be appreciated by society.
'If they don't believe that then the temptation is to listen to the voices that say come across to Syria.'
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It
comes after 17-year-old Talha Asmal, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was
reported to have become Britain's youngest suicide bomber.
And
Thomas Evans, a Muslim convert from Buckinghamshire, is believed to
have died in Kenya fighting for extremist group Al Shabaab.
In February, east London schoolgirls Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, and Kadiza Sultana, travelled to Syria via Turkey.
Sir Michael admitted that in some cases pupils have been 'let down' in some schools.
'We
have got to make sure that these youngsters, in these mono-cultural
areas, particularly in areas with large Muslim populations, feel that
they have terrific schools which show them that British education is
doing well by them.'
A family of 12, including children as
young as three, are feared to have fled to Syria. This picture appears
to show some of the Dawood family at the airport leaving the UK for
Saudi Arabia. Pictured are Junaid Ahmed Iqbal, Ibrahim Iqbal, Zaynab
Iqbal, Ismaeel Iqbal and Mariya Iqbal
Talha
Asmal, pictured left as a schoolboy, celebrates the end of his GCSEs. He
is reported to have been killed after detonating a car packed with
explosives in Iraq. Thomas Evans, 25, (pictured right ) from High
Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, is believed to be one of 11 militants who
died after attacking a military base in northern Kenya
When
the plan to inspect schools to ensure they were promoting British
values was first announced, Oftsed faced criticism for imposing extra
burdens on teachers and inspectors.
But Sir Michael insisted: 'It is one of the most important things that we do.
'It's
really important that all schools, whether they are faith or non-faith
schools, whether in mono-cultural communities or not, teach British
values - the importance of tolerance and understanding other cultures
and other faiths.
'And
if they don't do that and they don't promote tolerance, then we will
mark them down and we will fail them as we have done in some cases.'
He
pointed to schools in Birmingham which were 'preaching intolerance to
those youngsters in those communities' which were failed by Oftsed as
part of probes into claims of a Trojan Horse plot by extremists to take
over some schools.
The
government is facing fresh calls to understand how men, women and
children are becoming radicalised and are then able to travel to Syria.
Sugra
Dawood is thought to have fled with her five children – Junaid, 15,
Ibrahim 14, Zaynab, eight, Mariya, five, and three-year-old Ismaeel.
They
were understood to be with 33-year-old Zohra Dawood and her children –
eight-year-old Haafiyah and five-year-old Nurah – and 30-year-old
Khadija Dawood with children Muhammad, five, and seven-year-old Maryam.
If
the family's fears are confirmed, they would be the largest family to
have travelled to join ISIS from the UK if they have fled to Syria.
Labour's
shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'The Government must do all
they can to understand how these women became radicalised, drawn towards
ISIL and review their Prevent strategy in light of these findings.
'I
have argued for some time that the Government needs to reinstate
support for community led prevention as that was scaled back a few years
ago.
'Groups like Inspire work specifically with women to counteract the lies and warped ideology of groups like ISIS.
'Much more needs to be done to prevent more families being pulled apart by hatred and extreme terrorist groups.
'The
police and security service are working hard to tackle extremism, but
far more still needs to be done to prevent it in the first place as at
the moment the response just doesn't meet the scale of the serious and
growing problem'
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