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Play ball, and give the kids a break
•YOUR report on the sudden banning of ball games at Grove Place estate looks depressingly like another example of heavy-handed interference in the lives of ordinary people who have the temerity to be council tenants (Parents face Asbo if they let children play football, April 5).
Doesn’t the officious bureaucrat who made the decision – without, apparently, discussing the problem with the parents and children involved – realise that playing football is part of the job description of being a small boy?
The original rule allowing kids to play ball games outside until 8pm was a perfectly sensible one. If children were playing after that time it would have been reasonable for their parents to be contacted and reminded of their duty to ensure youngsters behaved properly.
To suddenly institute a ban on youngsters having a kick-around outside their own homes – and to add insult to injury by threatening them and their parents with Asbos – is insensitive and authoritarian.
SEAN THOMPSON
St Albans Road, NW5
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