Row breaks out after four-year-old told not to wear hijab to Catholic school Source: Birmingham Mail A Roman catholic school has angered many people due to the fact that they didn't allow a four year old Muslim girl to wear a headscarf to school. It is said that St Clares school in Hemsworth have a very strict uniform policy which includes no headwear or headscarf's. The school told the parents to respect there policy. The girls father went and told the Birmingham's city council's labour cabinet member of equalities, which they then wrote to the head teacher saying how there policy goes against the equalities act . But his colleague Coun Majid Mahmood from Hodge Hill said that as a faith school St Clare’s is “maybe within its rights to insist upon a particular dress code,” just as a Muslim faith school “may require girls to wear headscarves”. A former head of equalities for Birmingham City Council, agreed saying there is n...
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