ON Friday, July 9, I wrote to Charles Clarke, Secretary of State and David Miliband, Schools Minister.

I asked them both to support their own suggested government initiative of schools taking more responsibility for their own school funding budgets, by purchasing our school PTFA recipe book (containing many celebrity recipes as well as those from pupils, parents and staff) at a cost of £3.

I pointed out that as a Worcestershire school, we have to go that extra mile regarding raising school funding, to provide anywhere near the same service as other schools, who are in far better funded counties.

I have had a response from the Dfes (Charles Clarke) but not from the Schools Minister, David Miliband.

This is not the first time this has happened.

Perhaps if the Ministers bothered to visit Worcestershire and look round our schools, they would see that our schools problems are real and that the current system is unfair.

Their absence in our county says it all.

HELEN DONOVAN,

Evesham