Muslim family sends kids to school wearing 'Halal only' badges

Dad Talib Hussain, 38, said daughter Khadija Khan, 5, was continually given non-Halal meals - forcing him to take drastic action to highlight the problem.He was willing to accept the mistake but has lost confidence that the school will prevent similar incidents happening again.This week, Khadija, and her siblings Mohammed Talib, four, and Tayyeba Khan, three, went to Woodside Academy, in Bradford, West Yorkshire, with the bold message taped to their uniforms to highlight the problem.The school is an independently run academy but the food is provided by Bradford Council, meals are prepared off site and separated for different dietary requirements. Staff at the school are informed which pupils should be given the specially prepared meals.The school has since apologised to the family and said an investigation was under way to establish why the mistakes have occurred.Talib and wife Henna Khan, 29, of Bradford, had written to the school last spring after Khadija, then four, was served non-Halal food three times for school dinner.She was also offered ham and crackers in a classroom and sent home with a bag of jelly sweets, which contains gelatin not allowed under Halal rules.The family complained, and were sent a letter by the Council to inform them that staff would be given Halal awareness training to ensure it did not happen again.But since she returned to school after the summer break the family believe she has been served the incorrect food twice more. Talib said his daughter was too young to differentiate the difference between halal and non-halal food.The flummoxed father said:"Each time we complained to the school they said they were going to do something about it," he said."When it happens once it is an accident, when it happens twice it is a co-incidence but by the time it is happening a third time it seems negligent.""When we went to the school with the Halal only signs on the uniforms I told the head it was a protest by me and my children."The thing is they really like this school, and the kids are in top sets, but we find it hard to enjoy any of that, this has just overshadowed it. They just have to give the right meals to the right children."Head teacher Jane Browne said: "We regret this accident has happened."Meals are provided by Bradford Council staff and we are liaising with the Council in undertaking an investigation as to why our strict procedures have not been followed on this occasion."(mirror.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az