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UPDATE 14/04/14
There are now 25 schools under investigation over an alleged hardline Muslim plot to force out governors and headteachers.
Birmingham City Council said it was appointing a new chief adviser to directly handle at least 200 complaints received in relation to the Operation Trojan Horse allegations focusing on schools in the city, as the investigation continues to widen.
The council's investigation, running in parallel to a separate inquiry by the Department for Education (DfE), is due to initially report back in May.
However, Sir Albert Bore the council leader expressed "frustration" with the two-tier schools system which means academies - which are at the heart of the allegations - are outside the local authority's control, because they report directly to the DfE.
The council said Ian Kershaw, managing director of Northern Education, will take up the chief adviser role, and it is also setting up a review group of MPs, councillors, national teaching and governors groups, the police, and faith leaders, to look into the claims.
Mr Kershaw will publish his findings to the review group, which will then report to a council committee.
Sir Albert said a follow-up report containing recommendations for schools locally, and for the DfE to look at nationally, would be published by July.
He also confirmed the council had spoken to the local authorities in both Manchester and Bradford, during its three-month long investigation, where similar allegations have been raised.
Separately, Education Secretary Michael Gove has personally sent Ofsted in to inspect 15 Birmingham schools in recent weeks, after the allegations first broke.
Concerns over how some of the city's 430 schools were being run first emerged when an anonymous letter known as Operation Trojan Horse was leaked, claiming a small but radical group of Muslims were pursuing their own agenda in the classrooms, with uncooperative headteachers and governors forced out.
The unsigned and undated document also claimed to have caused "a great amount of organised disruption" in the city, crediting the plan with forcing a change of leadership at four schools.
There are now 25 schools under investigation over an alleged hardline Muslim plot to force out governors and headteachers.
Birmingham City Council said it was appointing a new chief adviser to directly handle at least 200 complaints received in relation to the Operation Trojan Horse allegations focusing on schools in the city, as the investigation continues to widen.
The council's investigation, running in parallel to a separate inquiry by the Department for Education (DfE), is due to initially report back in May.
However, Sir Albert Bore the council leader expressed "frustration" with the two-tier schools system which means academies - which are at the heart of the allegations - are outside the local authority's control, because they report directly to the DfE.
The council said Ian Kershaw, managing director of Northern Education, will take up the chief adviser role, and it is also setting up a review group of MPs, councillors, national teaching and governors groups, the police, and faith leaders, to look into the claims.
Mr Kershaw will publish his findings to the review group, which will then report to a council committee.
Sir Albert said a follow-up report containing recommendations for schools locally, and for the DfE to look at nationally, would be published by July.
He also confirmed the council had spoken to the local authorities in both Manchester and Bradford, during its three-month long investigation, where similar allegations have been raised.
Separately, Education Secretary Michael Gove has personally sent Ofsted in to inspect 15 Birmingham schools in recent weeks, after the allegations first broke.
Concerns over how some of the city's 430 schools were being run first emerged when an anonymous letter known as Operation Trojan Horse was leaked, claiming a small but radical group of Muslims were pursuing their own agenda in the classrooms, with uncooperative headteachers and governors forced out.
The unsigned and undated document also claimed to have caused "a great amount of organised disruption" in the city, crediting the plan with forcing a change of leadership at four schools.
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