Huyton is the birthplace of Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, Newcastle United's Joey Barton and Everton veteran Peter Reid. A children's anti-obesity charity has criticised the policy saying children "must be exposed to risk" to learn.
Tam Fry, chairman of the Child Growth Foundation, said: "Children must be exposed to risk, otherwise how can they be expected to learn? Schools should be places to learn.
"They may think they are protecting the children but they could just as easily fall over playing with a sponge ball. Policies like this mean our children are in danger of becoming cocooned cotton buds."
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Ummm... your children are already "cocooned cotton buds". Short of letting them play with the sorts of toys my generation grew up with (and by today's standards, we should all be dead from choking, phthalate poisoning, tetanus from sharp metal pieces, and magnets tearing our intestines), kids are never going to learn anything about danger and responsibility in play from their toys. Why bother learning not to put something in your mouth if there's no reason not to?
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