Plans are being laid out which could see pupils who come from a single ethnic or religious community required to mix with children from other backgrounds.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid will call on schools to teach “British values”, with one of the key measures being to boost English language skills.
There are currently 770 thousand people in Britain that can speak hardly any English at all.
Daniel Singleton is the national executive director of Faith Action – a national network of faith-based and community organisations.
He told Premier teaching people English isn’t an attack on other cultures.
“There’s not any shortage of people who want to learn English and what we have to remember is that just because someone is not speaking English, doesn’t mean necessarily they’re speaking the same language as all the other people they’re around,” he said during Premier’s News Hour.
“So actually, English is the common factor that draws people together.
A consultation paper on the plans – launched by Mr Javid with the backing of £50 million of Government money – follows the 2016 Casey Review, which warned that social cohesion cannot be taken for granted in multicultural UK.
He said: “Britain can rightly claim to be one of the most successfully diverse societies in the world. But we cannot ignore the fact that in too many parts…
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