THE quite disgraceful comments by the new Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, Sarah Bogle, cannot go unanswered.

Children Services, under the Conservative administration were given priority – and that included extra funding.

All Sarah Bogle and her Labour colleagues did was to undermine everything we tried to achieve, and support the strikes. I will await proof of her group’s spending priorities and see how much extra they spend on Children’s Services.

Also, rather than rant in her now predictable anti-Conservative way regarding Michael Gove’s ideas for replacing the GCSE exams, Cllr Bogle should remember just how much her Government let down the young people of this country.

Year after year they allowed exam results to look better and for achieved grades to get higher, yet with no evidence of the students actually getting better. Labour have cheated students and devalued the exams. A rigorous overhaul is long overdue.

PETER BAILLIE, Councillor for Bitterne Park Ward, Southampton City Council.