The broadcaster was contacted after revealing she let her 15-year-old son go inter-railing around Europe.
Kirstie Allsopp has told the BBC she felt "sick" after being contacted by social services for allowing her 15-year-old son to go interrailing around Europe.
On Monday, the broadcaster wrote on social media that her son had returned from three weeks travelling abroad with another teenage friend, and without parental supervision. Allsopp said she was "profoundly shocked" when Kensington and Chelsea Council informed her the matter had been referred to social services shortly after she discussed it on X, formerly Twitter.Allsopp's son travelled to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Marseille, Toulouse, Barcelona, and Madrid with a 16-year-old friend earlier this summer.
She told social media followers she had decided to allow him to go because society is "increasingly risk averse", and children needed to develop the "confidence that only comes from trusting them"."Like many kids who are at Reading or Leeds ... or travelling in Europe, there are some who are a bit younger simply because of their cohort."She said she did not want to appear critical of "amazing" social services, but that she had been shocked by the call.
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