According to the Times, the couple said they were banned from entering Cowley Hill Primary School in Borehamwood after questioning the recruitment process for a head teacher and criticising the leadership in a parents’ WhatsApp group.
The parents said they emailed the school “regularly” following the ban to address issues relating to the needs of their daughter, who has epilepsy, is neurodivergent, and is registered disabled.
The school said it sought advice from police after a “high volume of direct correspondence and public social media posts” that it said was upsetting for staff, parents and governors.
An officer issued a warning to the family in December, telling them to take their daughter out of school, which they did the next month.
But a week after that, on 29 January, Mr Allen said six police officers turned up at his home.
Mr Allen, who is a Times Radio producer, denied using abusive or threatening language, “even in private”.
The force revealed it was reviewing the investigation, and Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire Jonathan Ash-Edwards said: “There has clearly been a fundamental breakdown in relationships between a school and parents that shouldn’t have become a police matter.”
