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The safest country on earth passing on more intellectually-sanctioned ban.

Schools bar parents from sports day… to keep out paedophiles

Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.

The host school said they could not prevent ‘unsavoury’ characters from sneaking in.

More than 270 pupils from four local primaries took part in the East Beds School Sports Partnership Athletics Day at Sandy Upper School in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire last week.

Youngsters aged seven and eight competed in the long jump, hurdles, sprint, 400 metres and relay races. Their parents, many of whom wanted to take time off work to attend, condemned the ban.

One mother, who did not wish to be named, said: ‘They said they just could not estimate how many parents were going to be there, and were worried that they couldn’t stop someone who shouldn’t be there from being there. But I think it’s just health and safety gone mad.’

Mother-of-three Emma Collett, 33, of Biggleswade, has a child at St Andrew’s Lower School in the town.

She said: ‘I would have taken time off work to support my child. It would have meant a lot to me.

‘I’m all for measures to protect the safety of children but lines must be drawn and common sense must prevail.’

Paul Blunt of the East Bedfordshire School Sports Partnership, which ran the event, said the ‘ultimate fear’ was that a child could be abducted.

He said: ‘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 and we just can’t put the children in the event or the students at the host school at risk like that.

‘The ultimate fear is that a child is hurt or abducted, and we must take all measures possible to prevent that.’

Mr Blunt confirmed he had received a complaint from an irate mother but defended his decision.

He added: ‘None of the children taking part attend the host school so it would’ve been really hard to police.

‘We did a risk assessment and concluded that we couldn’t guarantee the children’s safety.

‘The number of children involved meant it would have been hard to ensure people were who they claimed to be.’

Local councillor Anita Lewis also backed the decision, saying: ‘The safety of the children is paramount.

‘It was decided that following a risk assessment we could not adequately supervise up to 100 plus adults on the school site.’

However, Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said it was ‘totally unreasonable’ to ban parents from a sports day.

‘It’s clearly a serious misjudgement. One of the great pleasures of sports day is that their parents can watch them take part,’ he said.

‘If you followed the thinking of this ban you wouldn’t be able to let you child out of the front door.’

SOURCE: Mail Online

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Just as any form of ban proposed in Britain, whether logical or not, I’m sure this will have a positive consequence for its queen and country.

As we all know, Britain has a positively effective gun control, which also led to the sharp decline in stabbing cases, as everyday Britons are no longer living in fear of crooks armed with Fully Automatic High Calibre 30-Round Capacity Saturday Night Special firearms in their pockets.

And why am I who live in a country purportedly dangerous to live in, as frequently ballyhooed by whiny online faux activist wannabe wingnut, enjoys a guaranteed safe atmosphere during Sports Day back in my time in both primary and secondary school?

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin