Education ministry gives go-ahead to two-thirds of Christian faith schools

Michael Gove said the Department for Education sought to keep the data secret because some free-school volunteers had faced intimidation. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PAThe Department for Education this year approved only one in five applications to open Islamic and Hindu faith schools as part of the government's flagship free schools programme, while accepting applications from two out of three mainstream Christian faith schools, based on analysis of data released under a freedom of information

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