Shamima Begum school brings in radicalisation plans

The school that Shamima Begum and two other schoolgirls attended before they left the UK to join ISIS has introduced ‘robust’ initiatives to prevent pupils being radicalised.

Bethnal Green Academy, where Begum, then 15, was a pupil when she left with two friends to travel to Syria in 2015, was taken over by the Mulberry Academy chain in 2018. At the time, the school was criticised for failing to do more to spot the girls could be at risk, after a friend had travelled to join IS just two months before.

However, Mulberry says that it is now a ‘very different’ school, with new measures in place including personal, social and health and economic education, a pastoral house system, and ‘strong parent liaison’.