School's out, or will be soon. So how do you keeep your children amused during the six-week summer break?
As we report this week, more and more parents are paying for their offspring to spend some of the holidays at an American-style summer camps participating in outdoor activities such as absailing, quad-biking and surfing.
But are working mums and dads using these camps as what one father called 'proxy childminding' to help solve their childcare headache over the summer?
Are some parents dumping their sons and daughters in these camps so they can go off on holiday and let someone else look after their kids?
And does all this matter anyway, given the fun young people have, new friends they make and personal growth they undergowhile 'on camp'?
