ABSTRACT
After the disturbances in the summer of 2001 in Bradford and other northern towns, which much of the media dubbed ‘race riots’, both the Cantle and Ouseley Reports made specific reference to education (Cantle 2001; Ouseley 2001). This sparked a concerned debate about the value of ‘faith schools’ and their contribution to the social make-up of the city. Indeed it was even suggested in some quarters that faith schools had contributed to the disturbances. Yet given the nature and scale of faith school provision, this assertion was clearly untenable.
