OFSTED CHIEF IN BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS ENQUIRY

Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted chief, is taking personal charge of the Ofsted investigation into claims that some Birmingham schools have been taken over by Muslim hardliners.
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The Ofsted findings are due to be published in early May.
There are two other investigations under way: by Birmingham City Council, and also by the Department for Education, to be carried out by the former counter-terror chief Peter Clarke, appointed by the Education Secretary Michael Gove.

The Ofsted inspection involves 18 school in the city, while the City Council is investigating 25 schools.

Roger King, chair of governors at Springfield Primary School and a local National Union of Teachers representative in Birmingham, has denied that his school has faced an Ofsted inspection more recently than a visit 'maybe two years ago', and said he had not come across extremism or segregation in the city's schools.

Park View Educational Trust, which runs schools linked to the allegations, also warned that it was 'highly irresponsible' for anyone to suggest that schools will face interventions when neither the Department for Education or Ofsted had completed their reports - and when pupils at the secondary schools were about to take their GCSEs. 

The inquiry has become known as Trojan Horse because this was the name of a plan for an organised takeover of schools in an anonymous letter. The letter is not yet established as authentic or a hoax.