David,

The picture below shows my 6 year old daughter happily enjoying an ice-cream on Sunday in Sheffield City Centre. Happily, that is, until we were approached by a Sheffield City Centre Management Team Officer who informed me that we would have to move from our 'seat' "for our own safety". I informed him that at 40 years of age, I felt I was quite capable of judging for myself (and my daughter) whether a structure was safe to sit on or not.
 
I asked him whether he was suggesting that I would deliberately put my daughter in danger? He robotically repeated that we would have to move for our own safety, and walked off, continuing to stare at us and discuss us with his colleagues.  We did subsequently move, because my daughter became very distressed about it not being safe to sit there, and was now terrified of being "arrested"... I really wish I'd had my video camera with me to film this Orwell-inspired 'Safety Officer' scaring the heck out of a 6 year old - nice going, mate!

All the best,