However, the London Borough of Haringey has suspended free entitlementfunding for the school in Tottenham until it receives proof that alllinks with the Hizb ut-Tahrir group have been severed.
Haringey is one of the pathfinder local authorities for the extension ofthe nursery education grant to 15 hours.
During a Prime Minister's Questions session last week, Tory leader DavidCameron claimed that both schools, which are run by the IslamicShakhsiyah Foundation, had received 113,000 of Government money,some of which came from a pathfinder scheme, Preventing ViolentExtremism.
It later transpired that Mr Cameron had confused the name of the schemewith the pathfinder funding for the free entitlement.
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