Wednesday, 4 November 2009

When A Policy Is Not A Policy


A quick revisit of the much discussed Watford Council ban on parents at a kids play centre.

Liberal Conspiracy triumphalism looks to be set in clay, as Charlotte Gore has mentioned.

However, let's just point out one further inconsistency in Watford's rebuttal.

Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said:

At one playground a few parents started to stay around for all the sessions, this increased to the extent that staff felt they were spending more time worrying about what the parents were up to rather than watching and supervising the children! They should not have been allowed to stay that’s never been the policy

Yet the last OFSTED inspection stated:

Children under the age of five are welcome if they are accompanied by an adult.

That would appear to be a policy, no?