TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp expressed outrage after social services launched an investigation into her 15-year-old son’s inter-rail trip abroad with a friend, a journey that had sparked significant public debate.
Kirstie Allsopp expressed her outrage after being questioned by social services for permitting her 15-year-old son, Oscar, to go Inter-railing across Europe. According to The Mail on Sunday, a social worker contacted the 52-year-old TV presenter to inform her that a file had been opened following child protection concerns about her son. To Allsopp’s frustration, the social worker demanded details about the “safeguards” she had implemented for Oscar’s three-week trip across the continent with a 16-year-old friend.
Astonishingly, Kirstie Allsopp was informed that the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), her local council, might keep the file open “in case there was another referral and we needed to come to your house and look into this further.” In an exclusive statement to the newspaper, Allsopp condemned the council’s actions as “Orwellian” and “absolutely outrageous.”
