FEW people are aware of the Children Act of 1989 which makes it a legal duty to 'Ensure the health and safety of children in our care'.

That can be applied extremely widely and has never been more necessary than now when aggressive commercials selling to suggestible professionals has seen an epidemic of Wi-Fi spread through our schools.

Leading scientists and medical experts continue to issue warnings, which are not being heeded.

Experts believe that schools particularly are failing in their legal duty of care by installing this wireless internet connection system.

In New Zealand, a group of fathers recently banded together to fight the education authority – and won.

One of their sons had died from brain cancer, which they believed had been caused by exposure to Wi-Fi.

The result is that Wi-Fi has been banned from all that country's schools.

In Toulouse, a French court has granted a woman a disability pension of around £600 a month as a result of her chronic sensitivity to Wi-Fi and mobile phones.

They ruled it had caused her debilitating electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

The court ruled she displayed irrefutable clinical signs of a syndrome linked to electromagnetic waves, causing her 85 per cent functional impairment – Wi-Fi, so meaning she could no longer work as a radio scriptwriter and documentary director.

In England the mother of 15-year-old Jenny Fry told an inquest that she had committed suicide because the electromagnetic symptoms she suffered from the school Wi-Fi made her feel she could not cope any more.

When she had to leave a classroom because she was close to the wireless router, she was blamed.

Headaches, bladder problems and constant fatigue made her miserable.

The World Health Organisation does not regard EHS as a medical diagnosis but does recognise the symptoms.

(The constant emission of microwave radiation has been shown in Canadian research to cause children memory and concentration problems, irritability and sleeplessness.) A Council of Europe committee has said immediate action is required to protect children and urged that wireless internet connections and computers should be banned from schools.

France and Germany have already acted on European Environment Agency recommendations and removed Wi-Fi from their primary schools.

M L Edmunds

Amberley