London, United Kingdom – British Government To Pay for Security In Jewish Schools.

London, United Kingdom – The British government has pledged to help meet the growing cost of security at Jewish schools.

The pledge is part of the recommendations of last year’s all-party parliamentary report on anti-Semitism. “We recommend that the Home Office provides a greater level of support in addressing the security needs of British Jews, especially with reference to their places of worship and schools,”

Speaking in the House of Commons (Parliament) last Wednesday about capital investment in schools from 2008-2011, the British Minister for Schools and Learners, Jim Knight, said that “school and pupil security is one of the important areas that should be addressed”.

Parents currently pay for security measures, from the barbed wire around Manchester’s King David campus to round-the-clock monitoring by the Community Security Trust.

It is not year clear how much money will come from the government and how it will be spent. [ejp]