Last week, the BBC's Newsnight covered our investigation into North London's illegal unregistered Jewish schools, helping to bring greater public attention to the issue.

These schools are not harmless. They completely circumvent a child's right to education in favour of uninterrupted religious study which lasts from the crack of dawn until well into the night. An estimated 1,000 boys have disappeared from the state education system, trapped in a prison-like school environment where corporal punishment punctuates the school day and boys are beaten and bruised regularly. And when it's finally all over for these boys, and they leave school behind, they graduate unable to speak much or any English; unable to add or subtract; and completely ill-equipped to lead any kind of life that doesn't revolve around religion or the closed-off Charedi community which schooled them.

As with our investigations of conservative Christian and creationist schools, and our work exposing the takeover of Birmingham state schools by hardline Muslims – and indeed all or work education – we have been driven by our concern for the welfare and education of these young children. We are very grateful for the support of our members who feel as strongly as we do about the need for inclusive, integrated education

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