SIR – Rather than seeking to make cheap politically-motivated points about the efforts being made to improve education standards in Bradford (Letters, October 27), Cllr Davies ought to be informing people what she’s actually doing herself to ensure children who attend our schools get the opportunities to do well.

As a governor of a primary school within her ward, I had no idea she had been given responsibility for such services, let alone what she believes can be done to help it and other schools within her area achieve the outstanding results that they want for their children.

Has she, for example, written to the government to explain how potentially disruptive the introduction of the new curriculum will be on schools, and how difficult it will make it for governors to benchmark improvements being made within schools? Has she argued that additional funding be provided to schools which have had to find additional money to improve kitchen facilities out of their own budgets?

If she’s done none of the above, then perhaps she can explain to parents such as myself who do make use of the local state schools, why local politicians who don’t use those same schools should be pontificating about them?

Simon Kemp, Woodview Avenue, Baildon