Following on from my last post, an interesting article in the Indy today - child protection officers at East Sussex County Council have written to the Press Complaints Commission to complain about press harassment of 13-year-old father (or possible father, according to reports) Alfie Patten and his girlfriend, definite mother Chantelle Steadman. This follows on from Cornwall's assistant director of children's services writing to Channel 4 to demand the channel axes Boys and Girls Alone, the "Lord of the Flies" reality TV show where a whole load of children are dumped in a village in Cornwall by themselves, saying it is abusive.
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