Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 30
10th Report – Discrimination, harassment and abuse against Muslim women
Published 30 Jan 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Gendered Islamophobia All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government should ensure that schools have clear policies in place for tackling anti-Muslim hate. This needs to include specific training for teachers on the ways in which gendered Islamophobia manifests in society to ensure that teachers are equipped to provide an inclusive environment for Muslim students and are able to recognise and address anti-Muslim discrimination and abuse. (Recommendation, Paragraph 114) Community programmes
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 10th Report – Discrimination, harassment and abuse against Muslim women (HC 571), 30 January 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 12 May 2026 (deadline 30 March 2026).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government welcomes the Committee's inquiry and sets out existing and planned action across media, policing, employment, health, online safety, schools and community programmes, agreeing with some recommendations, noting others, and declining to commit to further online transparency powers at this stage.
- On Law Commission hate crime recommendations, the government is "considering the 34 recommendations" and says it has "already taken steps on implementation where appropriate", citing an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill.
- On mayors, it "agree[s] with the Committee" that they are well placed to promote the reporting service, and "will write to all UK Mayors" encouraging them to promote it.
- On online abuse, it points to an existing statutory review of the Online Safety Act and says it needs to be "confident of where regulation is working" before introducing new measures.
- On schools, it will convene a "Tackling Anti-Muslim Hostility Roundtable" as a first step, and will procure and publish further anti-Muslim hostility resources on Educate Against Hate "in the next financial year".