Large Stamford Hill meeting protests against LGBT teaching

Rabbi Asher Gratt, a spokesman for the group, said, “It is sadly the compromise approach and the willingness to find a meeting-point that strengthens Ofsted resolve in imposing an alien value system on children.”

The aim of the meeting was to call on schools to be “more strident and assertive” in resisting attempts to introduce “depravity and moral corruption” into the Jewish education system, he said.

It was addressed by the centenarian local yeshivah head, Rabbi Elyakim Schlesinger, and several other rabbis.

A number of Charedi schools have been marked down by inspectors over the past month for refusing to discuss subjects such as sexual orientation or gender reassignment.

Rabbi Gratt said that the situation was “going from bad to worse and parents have lost patience”.

According to the RSE guidelines, children should be taught about same-sex relationships before the end of secondary school. In primary schools, the topic is encouraged but not mandatory.

While concern about RSE was across the board, another Stamford Hill source said, some schools also had problems with teaching about other religions and pressure to encourage children to attend secular higher education. Ofsted was "tightening its grip," he said.

Rabbi Gratt said the meeting was “the beginning of something very dramatic in the community”.