SIR - As a parent with a child in both Hanson and Dixons Academy schools, I have serious concerns about a second academy being planned for the district.

Dixons was already a well-resourced school with high academic results as a CTC, when it received £10 million of extra public funding to sweeten its transition to an Academy.

This form of special assistance is unfair in comparison to the resources available for conventional schools.

The general argument is that Academies provide a new ethos and approach to improve failing inner-city schools but the evidence is very poor for such an assertion.

The simple fact is that a similar massive injection of funding to conventional schools in order to improve buildings and facilities would have a similar impact.

What we need in Bradford is support for all the comprehensive schools in the district (with extra resources for inner-city schools facing difficulties) ideally through a secular system administered by and accountable to the local authority.

What we do not need is an expansion of state funding to unaccountable schools, run by business or religious groups that, in the worst cases, have highly dubious educational goals including the teaching of creationism.

Steve Schofield, Park Crescent, Bradford