Kirstie Allsopp has actually stated she was gotten in touch with by social solutions for enabling her teen kid to take place an Interrailing journey abroad.
The Location, Location, Location speaker stated she enabled her 15-year-old kid, Oscar, to go Interrailing throughout Europe with a 16-year-old close friend this summertime however had actually because been gotten in touch with by a social employee that notified her that a documents had actually been opened up after youngster security worries were elevated.
Allsopp stated authorities did not recognize that she had actually been targeted by somebody incorrectly affirming forget.
She informed the Mail on Sunday: “I just felt sick – absolutely sick. Then I was cross. I was very, very cross. It was just so extraordinary. I was in a parallel universe where they were actually taking this seriously. I have broken no law and nothing about allowing my child to travel around Europe is neglectful.”
Allsopp stated she was not informed just how the reference had actually been made or by whom, with the social employee claiming every reference needed to be checked out and examining what safeguards were established for her kid’s journey.
They additionally validated a documents had actually been opened up on Oscar, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), Allsopp’s regional council, can maintain the data open “in case there was another referral and we needed to come to your house and look into this further”.
Allsopp informed the Mail: “For me, that was the sucker punch – the idea this file might continue existing. What [the official] said to me was: ‘If in six months there was another referral and we needed to come to your house and look into this further, it would be important that we had kept a note of the first referral.’
“That was the Orwellian moment. The fact it was maliciously done wasn’t coming home to her.”
An agent for RBKC informed the paper: “Safeguarding children is an absolute priority. We take any referral we receive very seriously and we have a statutory responsibility for children under 18 years of age.”
Allsopp obtained blended responses after exposing the choice online previously today, with some criticising her for allowing her kid go while others commended the relocation.
She composed in an article on X: “For obvious budget reasons, inter-railing isn’t on the cards for everyone, but in this increasingly risk-averse world it’s vital that we find any ways we can to give our children the confidence that only comes from trusting them.
“Of course I missed spending the summer with our son, but I’m so proud of him & my loss is nothing compared to his gain & the encyclopaedic knowledge he now has of the differences between one McDonalds & another, if we’re afraid our children will also be afraid, if we let go, they will fly.”
