It began with parents at some schools being banned from photographing their own children at Sports Days - though you'd have thought they'd have just been grateful that they still had Sports Days. Then Sandy Upper School in Biggleswade stopped tinkering around the edges of paranoia and held the event without the parents altogether. Paul Blunt, of the East Beds School Sports Partnership, was quoted as saying,
"If we let parents into the school they would have been free to roam the grounds. All unsupervised adults must be kept away from children. An unsavoury character could have come in. The ultimate fear is that a child is hurt or abducted."
But, Paul: why stop there? If you want to be really sure, don't let children out of the house at all. Two of them die every week at the hands of their own family, so we look forward to your initiatives for tackling that.
