Birmingham Council: 'No logic' in Court ruling

The Appeal Court says separating boys and girls at an Islamic school in Birmingham is sex discrimination.

Ofsted's chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, has welcomed the judgement relating to Al-Hijrah school, which she said could affect more than twenty other co-educational schools across England.

Colin Diamond, from Birmingham City Council, told Radio 4's World at One that the ruling would be implemented, but he questioned the judgement. He said "so it's ok to have boys and girls secondary schools, adjacent to each other, with a fence between them; but not ok to have boys and girls in the same school, when parents have signed up for that form of Islamic education. We don't see the logic, or equity in any of that."

(Photo: Birmingham City Council Credit: PA)