The survey, carried out to mark yesterday's annual Playday event (7 August), came across a number of examples of children being kept from playing in the name of safety. At one infants school, children were not allowed to make daisy chains because the teacher said they might pick up germs from the ground. Yo-yos were banned from one school's playground in case they caused injuries, and handstands were outlawed in another because a pupil doing a handstand had injured her elbow.
Other instances of extreme precautions reported to the Children's Society and Children's Play Council, an alliance of charities working to promote better play opportunities, included a primary school that had banned 'tag'
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