SIR - For many years I, with Councillor Jo Hodges, have been highlighting the unjust treatment reserved for Elgar Technology College and Christopher Whitehead Language College.

These schools have contended with unfair pupil admission numbers, catchment areas and the problems related with having to accept more than their share of challenging students.

A letter was published by the Worcester News (April 20) from the cabinet member for children services, Coun Liz Eyre, who totally refuted there is such a problem in one of these schools.

Coun Eyre will know very well that, in my capacity of chairman of the scrutiny panel, I have been copied into letters directed to her from headteachers, governors and others highlighting these very problems.

The scrutiny committee has had many meetings both with Coun Eyre and officers within her department as well as visiting the schools, in which the issues in which she now denies, have been accepted and improvements have been promised.

She should be reminded that children are arriving on the doorsteps of these schools without any files or paperwork and when the headteachers try to refuse to accept these students, they are bombarded with letters from the council reminding them of their constitutional responsibilities.

Children attending Elgar Technical College and Christopher Whitehead Language College should be able to learn in a safe and healthy environment. Teachers should be able to teach without having an out of balance quorum of disruptive students.

Instead Coun Eyre's reply demonstrates she is unable to enact the "every child matters" agenda and is supporting a different strategy in which she prefers that the success of our Worcestershire schools are at the expense of schools such as Elgar and Christopher Whitehead.

Coun John Buckley, Chairman of overview and scrutiny committee , Worcestershire County Council.