We contacted all of the candidates vying for your vote to be the next MP for the Glastonbury and Somerton constituency, asking each of them the same questions. We've taken their responses exactly as they were sent to us - so you know where each of the candidates stands to help you decide who to vote for.

Here are their responses to the question:

What are your plans for supporting local schools and ensuring high-quality education for all children in our constituency? How will you address the issue of school funding and resources?

Jon Cousins (Green Party):

As your Green MP, I will push for an education system that is fully inclusive, with better funded support for special educational needs and all children provided with a free school meal. Green policy supports every higher education student with the restoration of grants and the end of tuition fees. And Green policy is focused on ending high-stakes, formal testing at primary and secondary schools; abolishing OFSTED. As a Green MP, I will also push for £5 billion to be invested in special needs (SEND) provision within mainstream schools, and for the role of the 'school nurse' to be fully restored, ensuring that all schools have access to an on-site medical professional. In addition, Green policy gives children and students at all state funded schools and colleges access to a qualified counsellor.

On a wider scale, the Green Party would advocate for £1.4billion per year to be invested by local authorities in Sure Start Centres, and – in negotiation with the sector – Greens would extend the outgoing government's offer of childcare to 35 hours per week from nine months. Green policy would see an increase in school funding, with an £8billion investment in schools that would include £2 billion for a pay uplift for teachers. Greens would also restore the Education Maintenance Allowance to financially support young people to extend their studies after the age of 16.

Sarah Dyke (Liberal Democrats):

The Liberal Democrats believe that education is the best investment we can make in our children's potential and our country's future. We'll put a dedicated, qualified mental health professional in every primary and secondary school, funded by increasing the Digital Services Tax on social media firms and other tech giants. We'll increase school and college funding per pupil above the rate of inflation every year, and end the scandal of crumbling school and college buildings by investing in new buildings and clearing the backlog of repairs. Brookside Community Primary School has suffered funding cuts of £252,636 since 2010/11 and St Dunstan's funding has been cut by £41,428 in the same period. We'll introduce a Tutoring Guarantee for every disadvantaged pupil who needs extra support. We'll invest in high-quality early years education and close the attainment gap by giving disadvantaged children aged three and four an extra five free hours a week and tripling the Early Years Pupil Premium to £1,000 a year. I visited Acorn Nursery in Somerton recently to highlight the gap between government funding received and the cost of providing care and later wrote to the Secretary of State about nursery provision.

We'll reinstate maintenance grants for disadvantaged students immediately. We'll create new Lifelong Skills Grants, giving all adults £5,000 to spend on education and training throughout their lives, and aim to increase them to £10,000 in the future.

Hal Hooberman (Labour):

Our education system is literally crumbling under the Conservatives. I went to state school right here - at Bruton Primary and then Sexey's. My sisters went to King Arthur's in Wincanton and then Strode in Street. I know the importance, and power, of a good state education. This is one of my biggest passions and priorities. We will expand our childcare and early-years system, drive up standards, modernise the school curriculum, reform assessment, and create higher-quality training and employment paths by empowering local communities to develop the skills people need. We will also put employers at the heart of our skills system.

We will recruit an additional 6,500 new expert teachers into shortage subjects and tackle retention issues. Labour will hire specialist mental health professionals in every school and provide free breakfast clubs in every primary school - ending the poverty-induced pandemic of hungry children at the beginning of the school day. This will be funded by the ending of VAT exemptions on private school fees so we can pump much-needed money into where it is really needed - state schools.

Tom Carter (Reform UK):

No response received

Faye Purbrick (Conservative)

No response received