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Botched reports into trojan horse schools ‘a waste’
THE coalition has wasted taxpayers’ money and failed to protect the public during the “trojan horse” schools scandal, MPs and teachers’ unions said yesterday.
A report by the Commons education committee revealed yesterday that the government’s handling of the affair led to four separate yet inconclusive investigations.
No proof of the alleged attempt by radical Muslims to take control of several Birmingham school governing boards was found by any of the probes by the Department for Education, Birmingham City Council, schools inspectorate Ofsted and the Education Funding Agency.
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