These Steiner ‘failures’ are really a failure of the free school agenda | Zoe Williams

It turns out that letting anyone open a Steiner school wasn’t one of Michael Gove’s best ideasOfsted inspectors have found three of the UK’s four Steiner state schools “inadequate”, in reports that will be published this week. Their core concerns are believed to be safeguarding, bullying and a lack of support for children with special educational needs. A number of private Steiner schools have also been deemed inadequate.In a brilliant primer written in 2014, when f