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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | As we uncovered more clues about who could have written the Trojan Horse Letter, every |
0:06.0 | so often, Hamza and I would go back and reread the letter itself to see whether the new information |
0:10.8 | we were finding unlocked any of the letter's secrets. |
0:14.6 | We definitely did that after we got a hold of the audit report. |
0:18.2 | And that's the audit report. |
0:22.0 | This is the Birmingham City Council's report about whether head teacher Rizwan Adar had |
0:26.1 | faked resignation letters from four teaching assistants at her school, Adderly Primary. |
0:31.1 | The audit report, remember, predated the Trojan Horse Letter. |
0:34.8 | And so, after digesting the audit, Hamza and I gave the Trojan Horse Letter another look. |
0:39.5 | Oh my god. |
0:42.4 | Hamza started shaking his head. |
0:44.8 | The audit report, the fact of it, it looked like it had been incorporated right into the Trojan |
0:49.7 | Horse Letter. |
0:51.2 | Get a load of step four of the plot, Hamza says to me. |
0:54.1 | Four is the part of the letter that says you're supposed to get TAs to cook up allegations |
0:58.1 | against the head teacher in order to spark an investigation. |
1:02.0 | To add credibility to the issue, it is always better to push for an external council investigation. |
1:07.2 | It is also the audit report. |
1:09.8 | What hadn't jumped out at us until we read the audit is that according to the letter, |
1:14.2 | the TAs are supposed to push for a specific type of inquiry into the head teacher they're |
1:18.8 | targeting, an external council investigation. |
1:22.3 | The audit investigation we just read was exactly that, an external council investigation into |
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