The number of warning notices issued by the Department for Education to Charedi independent schools has fallen for a second year in a row.
The DfE sent notices to five strictly Orthodox schools last year — down from 11 in 2023 and 18 in the year before that.
Warnings follow a critical Ofsted inspection which reports that a school has been failing to meet required standards.
The school must then produce an action plan to show how it proposes to remedy the shortcomings.
If it fails to make improvements, it could face sanctions such as a bar on admitting new pupils or, in the last resort, closure.
According to the new Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which is currently before Parliament, the government wants to increase its capacity to act on schools considered to be failing by giving the Education Secretary the power to suspend them.
