"Glenn Booth" wrote in message
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Hi,


The website also says:
quote
Many young children play outdoors with other children without a parent or
carer being present. As they are unsupervised, they are 'alone', but most
people would agree that this is an important part of growing up.
/quote

So Messrs Booth and co are errmm leaving them "unsupervised" as "part of
(their) growing up".

For the record, I haven't actually left them unsupervised at all, ever.
The upshot seems to be "most" 13 year olds shouldn't be left alone
"for more than a short time", but "young children" can play outside alone
(mine don't), and we have no definition of "very young", or "young".

Seems to me that common sense is called for, and the nspcc site is a bit
of
a cop out. I'm a member too, for whatever it's worth. Ah well. I just
won't do
anything unless I'm convinced it's as safe as possible.

Regards,

Glenn.

Oh dear perhaps I should have put a smiley after my post. I was aware of
this anomaly where it is OK to leave a child outdoors possibly with
strangers, whereas it is not OK to leave children in the safety of your own
home.

In practice you know your own children and whether you are happy to leave
them for a while. It's not as if they don't know where you are.