I would have sacked all the police/security staff on the spot!

Ask -call me Dave - if a good dad thinks he or his kids are the most important.

alan14 - I thought you were on about the TV Channel 'Dave', where those three unruly car vandals are let loose on the British public. ;o]

"F.E." -"it was an innocent mistake"

When you hire staff you give them a job description which clearly states their responsibilities.

Busy parents would expect their security team (which costs £millions) to follow instructions.

So if they can not even count heads and be responsible for seeing kids get into a car - how can one feel they can be relied upon in a complex situation. It should have been someone's job to make sure the party/family were in the cars safely.

No ifs no buts they would be gone if they were on my payroll.

"I'm not sure what your point is. You acknowledge that it was an innocent mistake, so why the thread?"

Here we have another of those cases where a post is ruined before it begins, someone posts an item which they feel worthy of discussion, the immediate response is an unjustified and totally unnecessary criticism, I wonder how many posters see these and feel twice about posting.

From a family point of view I cannot see any problem as many of us have "misplaced" our children from time to time.

What is more worrying id the security point of view as it could well have been more serious and no one noticed. Sorry definitely not good enough.