On 21/01/13 11:36, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:49:19 -0000, Anne Burgess wrote:

I can see the point about needing to have enough staff to
supervise the children, but the rest of it is hot air.

I agree. As kids we used to have a great time making the playground a slippy
as possible with slides...


Same here, and that was only about 30 years ago.



Of course these days nonbody walks further than their front door to the car.
There are kids driven to school from homes less than 400yds away from the
school...


The reason often given being it is too dangerous to walk/cycle due to
all the cars. Their answer to this is to compound the problem by using
their cars to transport their children. In other words, it is perfectly
acceptable to externalise the dangers onto others.