THE Tory push to replace state schools with academies has left them in a state of “neglect,” a leaked review of Birmingham schools showed yesterday.

Prime Minister David Cameron called on Scotland Yard’s former anti-terrorism chief Peter Clarke in June to investigate reports of extremist indoctrination at a swathe of schools in predominantly Muslim neighbourhoods.

Previous investigations by the Education Funding Agency and school inspectors Ofsted had found no evidence that any school had fostered religious hatred. 

And Birmingham City Council’s Kershaw review found “no evidence of a conspiracy to promote an anti-British agenda, violent extremism or radicalisation.”

A draft of Mr Clarke’s findings however showed the retired copper reporting a “sustained, co-ordinated agenda to impose segregationist attitudes,” saying the coalition’s aggressive academies agenda was partly to blame.

“In theory, academies are accountable to the secretary of state, but in practice the accountability can amount to benign neglect where educational and financial performance seems to indicate everything is fine.” the draft read.