Articles Tagged: health and safety

Seven-year-old with special needs banned from Brownies over health and safety concerns

By Keith Kendrick, May 18, 2012

A furious mum claims her seven year-old daughter has been kicked out of her local Brownie group because of her learning difficulties.

Police called to three-year-old's birthday party because cake candles posed health and safety risk

By Liz Stansfield, May 14, 2012

In another case of health and safety gone made, a toddler was left upset when police were called to a soft play centre when his mum and dad lit the candles on his birthday cake

Boy banned by police from playing football outside his house...for kicking the ball too loudly!

By parentdish.co.uk, Apr 4, 2012

Janine Longworth’s son Bertie has been banned from playing football on the street because he was kicking his football too loudly

Parents told two-year-old son is health and safety risk for being TOO TALL for toddler play centre

By Keith Kendrick, Mar 16, 2012

THE family of a two-year-old who is five and a half inches (14cm) taller than an average child his age say he has been discriminated against by a soft play centre.

Health and Safety gone mad

By Liz Stansfield, Mar 10, 2012

The silly health and safety rules that make family life and parenting young children unnecessarily difficult

Hot drinks banned from mums' coffee mornings. Health and safety madness?

By Keith Kendrick, Mar 2, 2012

Mums are fuming after a local council banned hot drinks from their coffee mornings.

'Soft' schoolkids to be taught how to toughen up by specially trained teachers

By Keith Kendrick, Feb 16, 2012

“Soft” schoolkids are to be taught how to toughen up because they don’t know how to cope with failure.

The health and safety jobsworths who make parenting so tricky

By Keith Kendrick, Feb 9, 2012

Our writer laments the ridiculous lack-of-common-sense cotton wool-wrapped health and safety culture which means parents cannot make decisions for their own children on what is dangerous.