Not true to say we accept 'adequate'.

(From Western Daily Press)

As Somerset County Council Cabinet Member for Children and Families I would like to respond to the factually inaccurate letter from the opposition spokesman for children and families printed in your paper last week. Her letter referred to the recent Ofsted inspection into children in council care that rated the overall standard of Somerset County Council's provision as "adequate". She accuses the leader of the council, John Osman, of "seeming to believe that 'adequate' is good enough for our Somerset children."

The exact opposite is the case. John Osman has stated both in private and in public that "adequate" is not good enough, as I also …