Re the letter – Councillor is ‘playing politics’ over our community worker (Keighley News, February 13) – claiming I was raising a ‘non-issue’ regarding the community development worker in the Keighley constituency.

On investigating the matter further, it appears there are three community development workers in the constituency who appear, based on my interpretation of a response from a Council officer, to work for the benefit of the three central – Labour majority – wards, with only incidental benefits to the three outer wards.

This, I’m sure, will be an issue to my councillor colleagues and residents in Ilkley, Craven and the Worth Valley wards.

As for Saving Tree Tops and other children’s centres for ‘another year’, I believe the government allowed the Council to redirect funds for this purpose, and that we will have to fight to keep them open next year.

I also recall hearing earlier in the week that £9 million had been found, to add to the Council’s overall budget, but none of this would be used to reduce the burden of the ruling Labour group’s disproportionate cuts.

Perhaps it’s Councillor Jan Smithies and her Labour colleagues that are ‘winding up the residents of the Worth Valley’ and not I.

Councillor Russell Brown Worth Valley Ward