It is a shame the Lib Dems’ prospective Parliamentary candidate and Poole councillor attacks the Conservative administration instead of joining us in calling on the government properly to fund the education of Poole children.

Again he gets his facts wrong – this time on Hillbourne School (Have Your Say, April 1).

The Hillbourne project was never “fully funded”, as he states.

It was always accepted that it would need monies from the next government announcement of primary school building funds expected last year.

This announcement has not yet been declared.

The council cannot be sure there will be any more money for primaries.

The rising birth rate and its distribution across the borough, is not a “spike” as your correspondent states, but a trend which is likely to continue over the next decade at least.

We need 500 extra school places over the next three years and the shortfall is in the region of £10 million.

This more than wipes out the money in the Hillbourne project. The government eventually gave us £1 million towards new school places.

Where does Cllr Eades suggest we get the rest, other than by raising council tax by up to two per cent?

Cllr Tony Woodcock, supporting children and young people, Borough of Poole