Ofsted must restore confidence in its inspection regime in the aftermath of a series of wasteful and overlapping inquiries into alleged Islamic infiltration of Birmingham schools, a panel of senior MPs has today demanded.

A report issued today by the Commons education select committee called for ‘common sense and sensitivity' in the promotion of British values in schools, in the aftermath of the Department for Education's (DfE's) ‘Trojan Horse' investigation.

Entitled: ‘Extremism in schools: the Trojan Horse Affair' the MPs revealed that aside from one incident, there was ‘no evidence of extremism or radicalisation … in any of the schools involved'.