"Children are bewildered, angry and resentful at being disenfranchised because of the behaviour of a small minority," he states.
It is just one of an ever growing list of issues that children and young people have written, emailed or spoken about to England's new children's commissioner since his appointment in March. "Please can you stop the birds from messing on my dad's car," says one letter. But others raise issues ranging from safety and security and the state of school buildings to cases of children facing deportation.
"The range of issues is extraordinary, but the thing that children raise most often is bullying," says Aynsley-Green, who is due to take up his post officially on Friday (1 July).
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