Kirstie Allsopp reported to Social Services

[Eastie77Returns]

I know she’s worshipped on MN so will don by hard hat now😅 I think reporting her was absolutely ridiculous but I do question the wisdom of letting her 15 year old son travel across Europe on his own (well with friends). She mentioned lots of kids do this after their GCSEs. I think it’s usually after A Levels?

Well I went camping in the mountains at 14yrs old with 3 other 14yr olds, as part of an UNsupervised school expedition. No adults at all present.

Duke of Edinburgh Award - thousands of teenagers do it every year.

My brother was August born, after his GCSE’s in 1991 - he went to Magaluf with his mates. As he was still 15 my mum had to sign a consent form 😂😂

@XGarden

I don't think that's very nice of you.

shes allowed some privacy.

I'm pretty sure that Social Services will have a quick chat with Ms Allsopp and her son and close their file with NFA.

Doing nothing is not an option for them if only because of the risk of assertions of 'two tier Child Protection'.

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over 18

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Sounds like something that the trolls on Tattle would do.

I wouldn't let my 15 year old go personally, after A levels is a different story. However, reporting to SS is just crazy, she knows her own sons maturity levels and has the wealth and resources to be able to help if he were to find himself in difficulty. What a waste of precious SS resources.

There's a risk here of taking ages too absolutely. People mature at different rates and some 15-year-olds are probably more mature than some 18-year-olds, who nobody would blink at being allowed to travel on their own.

Reporting her to social services is extreme and probably wouldn’t have happened if she wasn’t in the public eye.

It really depends on the child as to whether they are mature enough to do this.

2 of my dc absolutely wouldn’t have been mature enough at 15 but two of them would have been perfectly capable and I would have been able to trust them to make wise choices!

Hahaha. . I assume you are joking. If not. Bloody hell.

I don't worship Kirstie Allsop as the OP mentions, indeed the property programmes she co-hosts contribute I think to many people being unable to have an adequate home of their own, given they look at property as a way to make speculative gains and inflate house prices.

I don't agree with the social services reporting of her. The people who I would willingly report to social services include those who are seen every school day driving an SUV who are unfit to drive it, in some cases in the morning over what should be the drink-drive limit.

This particular 15 year old is likely to have school friends who travel independently to his school from other countries every term. I suspect he has also travelled to visit them in the family homes in their own countries, or their family yacht in the med.

An 11 yr old camping at a festival? That is completely a safeguarding issue with no adults. Hi might well be ‘fine’ if nothing crops up but in a situation where something happens, 11 isn’t necessarily going to be old enough to make good, informed choices.
In my opinion that’s totally inappropriate to let an 11yr old do that.

It's a stupid waste of public money. You'd think they have better things to do.

I think she set out to create a talking point and it backfired badly. She started her post by referring to her son as 'my little boy' so she was being goady. I also am guessing that the 'adventure' was quite limited and carefully controlled, possibly involving second homes and meeting family. I doubt they were hanging about at 11pm in Marseilles bus station. All a bit unnecessary.

Year 11 - 15/16 years old. So you can climb down from your high horse.

I think this is a bit of a class issue.

I wouldnt do it

Too vulnerable. He looks young, isnt with anyone older and wont have enough life experience.

Age 17+ is fine.

I did benidorm at 17 with 19&20 yr old friends and that was stressful enough trying to manage

Her son isnt mature enough

School year 11 in UK so 16.

My son says he's way too old for Reading /Leeds and he's under 30.

Year 11 in school not a child that is 11 years old

If something awful happens and you’ve let your dc go away at 15, then people would have something to say.

I think the vast majority of teens go after a levels as they’ve had to save up. Not many 15 year olds could fund their own trip like Kirstie’s ds.

Personally I think it’s too young, but it’s up to the parents who know their own dc and what they are capable of.

How many people saying 15 is too young to travel independently also let their 5 year old play out?

Alone? Unsupervised?

How?

I wasn't massively over that when I was allowed to go and call for friends to play and I walked/bussed home from school alone by 7.