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Tories failing witnesses of school probe
Anonymity of whistleblowers threatened
THE government must keep its promise to honour the anonymity of school staff who were asked to give evidence amid allegations of hardline Islamic schooling in Birmingham, Labour said yesterday.
Whistleblowers who first raised concerns during the so-called “Trojan Horse” investigation fear that their identities may be revealed after it emerged that their personal details could be handed to the people they had accused.
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the Star that the least the Tories could do was to protect the whistleblowers that they had relied on to prop up their inquiry.
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