Widespread welcome for Birmingham primary exclusion zone

The High Court injunction was sought by Birmingham City Council last week after more than eight weeks of protests outside the school.
The council said it applied for the injunction because of “increasing fears for the safety and wellbeing of the staff, children and parents”.

A statement said: “This is particularly so after the serious escalation of the protests in the week before half-term – including the attendance of very large numbers of people who have no children at the school, many of whom are not from the city.

“This, together with the increasingly unacceptable behaviour of protesters who have disrupted and disturbed the running of the school and the children’s education, has led the council to conclude that the risk of harm to staff, parents and children has become too serious to tolerate.”
The interim injunction creates an exclusion zone around the school and bans them protestors from making offensive comments about school staff on social media.