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Clothing, Products and Services for Children

We would prefer to see a more measured approach. Common sense tells us that under 16s are bound to need swimwear and bras at some stage during their childhood.As the Department for Education's Children and Youth Board sensibly commented in their response to our Call for Evidence:

"The Board felt that bikinis for children wasn't the problem, but that bikinis have become sexualised by the media, e. g. models posing in newspapers in bikinis."Department for Education's Children and Youth Board

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