To add to the rant it appears that kids are not allowed onto the
playground if snow is lying because the poor darlings may slip and
fall, and possibly graze or bruise themselves, and the nasty
Elastoplast-chasing lawyers might take the school for a few hundred
quid "compo".

Kids can't have any fun in the snow anymore. Many kids of my age (57)
will remember that a good snowfall was an excuse for the creation of
long ice-slides in the playground and all sorts of other dangerous
sports, such as ice-cored snowballs, shoving snow into the girl's
knickers and trying to get teacher (preferably headmaster) with a
well-timed snowball.

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There was a news item about this on Look East last week. After the snow
we had a few weeks back many schools were closed, one school in
particular had to close beacuse 1 parent (yes, just one) phoned in and
said she that if she took her kids to school and she/they had an
accident the school would be liable. Oh and dont even think about
putting plasters on there scraped knees anymore, you cant in case your
accused of some kind of abuse. Infact this school wouldnt even
administer any medical help without the parents consent.