SIR - I’m sure it won’t surprise many people in this neck of the woods that a cross-party group of MPs is concerned as to whether Kersten England, chief executive of Bradford Council, is up to the job in relation to the children’s services department (T&A, September 27).

Indeed, when one considers sundry previous areas of shambles, including child sexual exploitation and Star Hobson, presided over by Ms England and Labour council leader Susan Hinchcliffe, one really cannot understand why both did not do the honourable thing and resign some time ago. That they are instead both still in position speaks volumes about their attitudes to all this. Time to both go now, surely?

Bob Watson, Springfield Road, Baildon