ByJudith Moritz, Special correspondent and Daniel Wittenberg, senior producer
  • Published21 October 2026, 15:39 BST
Updated 44 minutes ago

Education Secretary Lucy Powell says the government will "update and strengthen" Holocaust education within schools after a major review highlighted the "shocking scale" of antisemitism in British society.

Schools and colleges in England will be required to recognise antisemitism as a distinct category of harm and take explicit action against it.

It means anti-Jewish hatred will be treated as a specific safeguarding risk rather than being dealt with through existing measures to stop racism and bullying.