Letting 15 year old Son travel to Europe by rail

Social services will have contacted her because someone reported her, they're obliged to investigate, which in this case will I imagine involve asking a couple of questions.
There is no way I can comment without bias as she drives me up the wall.

Maybe he wasn't the type to stay in a dodgy hotel in Ibiza where drunken teenagers occasionally fall off balconies. I read he and his friend went to Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Toulouse, Barcelona. City visiting.
KA and the other parent would know their own kids well enough.
How did social services find out anyway?

JaneJudge

I suppose lots of teenagers travel across Europe to stay with family during the summer? but this sounds like they went interrailing, which is catching trains across Europe and staying in hostels. As they are quite well off though he may have been able to stay in hotels which would have made it safer. She inhabits a different world to me after her comments about washing machines in kitchens. I have no idea how she lives her life

I never could work out her disgust to washing machines in kitchens. A location quite logical, really. First world problem.

Her son having access to the best - will probably be fine.

A parent is still legally responsible for a 15 or 16 year old until they're 18. Technically a 16 year old can leave home and live somewhere else, as long as it's a safe place, but the parent is still legally responsible for them until they're 18.

I think it's caused a storm because he was under 16 and not accompanied by an adult. The law has changed about marriage now and they can't get married at 16 any more - even with parental consent. They have to be 18.

I think most kids after GCSE's would love to go on holiday with friends, but the only place they can do that in the Uk is at a youth hostel. Under 18 year olds need an adult with them in hotels and B&B's etc. Most parents don't let 16 year olds go abroad on their own. Most accommodation expects them to be accompanied by an 18 year old and I'm surprised she got travel insurance.

It's one thing to go abroad at 16 accompanied or chaperoned, but another to have them go alone.

The generally accepted view is they need to be 18 to travel abroad without an adult. She is lucky nothing happened to him. Suppose he had had a few drinks and fallen off a balcony and died! She would have been in really serious trouble.

MissAdventure

Probably different for Kirstie than Katie Price, I'd imagine.

Quite

I suppose lots of teenagers travel across Europe to stay with family during the summer? but this sounds like they went interrailing, which is catching trains across Europe and staying in hostels. As they are quite well off though he may have been able to stay in hotels which would have made it safer. She inhabits a different world to me after her comments about washing machines in kitchens. I have no idea how she lives her life

Probably different for Kirstie than Katie Price, I'd imagine.