Fair Play for Children, a charity that campaigns for children's right to play, claims that a proposal to admit a trade union would be another step towards placing the council in direct competition with its own members.
At a meeting today (9 June) the council, which brings together voluntary groups involved in play, will consider a request for membership by the Community and Youth Workers Union.
Fair Play's national organiser Jan Cosgrove argued this went against the council's founding principle of non-competition with its constituent bodies.
In a paper to the council he said: "It seems unfair that the council, with government grant and special access, facilities and status, should be, in effect, competing on a uneven playing field with its member organisations."
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