SIR - Your report (T&A, May 24) quoting the Council leader's desire to bring education back under Council control is very welcome and very overdue.

What is interesting is Coun Ward's statement that the Lib-Dems never supported the Serco contract in the first place.

He must have a short memory, as he will perhaps recall that as education spokesman for the Council he was the midwife who helped bring the contract into being.

He may also recall that every party on the Council in 2001, except the Green Party, supported the privatisation of the education service in Bradford.

At the time we were condemned for our vote against the contract. The increasingly critical view of the contract and the more recent refusal to grant Serco the constant stream of contract variations they demanded are a welcome sign that perhaps the Green Party's view following the Ofsted report into Bradford's education system was not as wrong as was claimed at the time.

Privatisation of public services is often thought to be a solution. It is only when it is tried and fails that local government has to step in to pick up the pieces.

David Ford, Rhodes Street, Saltaire