'Conflicts of interest' at Muslim free school A conflict of interest is legal if governors go through the proper procedures and remove themselves from decision-making. There was meanwhile "no complete record" of expenditure or receipts for the year September 2012 to August 2013, according to the audit obtained by Channel 4 News. Last month an Ofsted inspection of the school was brought forward following claims that female staff were made to cover their heads even if they were not Muslim and pupils were segregated by gender. Inspectors described it as "in chaos," "dysfunctional," and in danger of collapsing, and the school was placed in special measures. Lord Nash, an education minister, will meet the school's governors today to decide on its future. A DfE spokesperson: "Lord Nash wrote to Shazia Parveen, the chair of the Al-Madinah Trust, on 8 October placing 17 requirements on the trust, which they must satisfy or risk their funding agreement being terminated. The last of those deadlines has now passed. We are actively considering the responses from the trust. It would be inappropriate to go into any further detail at this stage. The school could not be reached for comment.