Overview
- The review will assess how schools and colleges identify, respond to and prevent antisemitic incidents through policies, guidance and case-handling.
- Sir David Bell will examine the influence of external campaigning groups, protests at school gates and wider geopolitical events on institutional decisions.
- The remit covers all schools, including independent schools, with the process framed as improvement-focused rather than a funding exercise.
- Ministers highlighted Community Security Trust data showing 204 school-related antisemitic incidents in 2025, down from 266 in 2024 and 325 in 2023 but above 98 in 2022.
- Separately, the Department for Education is reviewing the Teaching Regulation Agency’s decisions framework after a teacher who posted pro-Hamas messages was not banned.