WORK to improve a muddy pathway used by parents and pupils to get to a Chaddesley Corbett School has not been completed despite promises the problem would be resolved, it has been claimed.

Worcestershire County Council said it would carry out remedial works to temporarily improve sections of the rural public footpath to the primary school during the Christmas break but parents say only some of the path had been improved.

Many have been forced to abandon their pushchairs halfway along the path in the school run, as only a quarter of the work had been done, said Susan Parry, who takes her grandson Corey Halpin, 6, to the school.

The county council, however, said the work had been completed and the pathway “significantly” improved, after being resurfaced with hardcore, adding the final grassed section had also been strimmed and cleared.

The school was built without access for people on foot and the only route for pupils and parents is along the muddy footpath.

Mrs Parry, who has to take her 11-month-old granddaughter Lacie Halpin with her on the school run, said: “They’ve done a quarter of it and that’s about all. They put a lot of hardcore down but it ends after that.

“The children have gone back to school after the holidays but we still can’t get through there.

“I’m disgusted. What they’ve done so far is excellent but they’ve just not finished all the work.

“I thought they were going to make it acceptable but you still can’t get up to the school entrance with a pushchair.

It’s not sorted at all.”

Conservative Stephen Clee, the county councillor for Chaddesley, claimed It was now much easier for pupils and parents to walk to and from school.

He added: “We appreciate this is a short-term solution and I am now committed to working with all parties to find a more permanent solution for the access to school."

James Hawthorn, headteacher, said he was “pleased”

the improvement works had taken place.

The county council is now working with Wyre Forest District Council, the school, its governors and Mr Clee, in consultation with the landowner, to find a more permanent solution.