London, July 5 (ANI): Playground 'compensation culture' in the UK is being heavily criticized after a schoolboy won a 5,750-pound payout for sustaining innocuous injury when another pupil splashed his hand with custard.
Nick Smeaton, secretary of the Campaign for Real Education, condemned the award.
"It is scandalous that thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money are spent on these, often frivolous claims when the money should be spent on schools," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
"It is a sad fact of life and schools have an impossible job. Accidents do happen. If someone has a serious accident due to negligence then it is quite right that that a claim can be made," he said.
"But in other cases it needs to be stopped before things go too far," he added.
Critics also felt that the money handed out to the injured, which costs the taxpayers nearly 2 million pounds, could have been better spent on improving the school itself.
Among a total number of 347 such claims a few examples can be those of a pupil who injured himself breaking into a school being given 5,700 pounds, and another child being awarded 9,000 pounds after breaking his arm while cartwheeling from a playground boulder. (ANI)
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