A Liverpool Council cabinet member was hauled in front of headteachers to explain his comments on racism in city schools.
Earlier this year the ECHO revealed, Cllr Tom Logan, cabinet member for education and schools, told a meeting of the same select committee that every school in Liverpool “has aspects of institutional racism” and leaders were “shying away” from the problem. Cllr Logan made the remarks in a report scrutinising his portfolio, as it was revealed that from the start of the new term in September, schools would be asked to report racist incidents to the local authority.
Answers to questions submitted to the education and skills select committee on Tuesday also identified that advice in 2012 from the UK Government to schools that they were not obliged to report incidents of racism made it difficult for Liverpool Council to “understand the prevalence and tackle the issue” owing to “not having reliable data”.
