Votes for babies?

It is good that England has a Children's Commissioner, Sir Al Aynsley-Green. But who knows what he does?

This week the Office of the Children's Commissioner relaunched. It is now called '11 million'. There has been some criticism of the relaunch which cost £93,000. The Commissioner receives £3 million a year from the government, but given the problems many children and young people face that is small beer. But the question still stands: what does the Commissioner do?

Well, according to his 5 year plan he will: "Gather the views of children from birth to adulthood". That sounds laudable as...no, hang on, does it really say "from birth"! Bizarrely it does and he seems to mean it: "We will gather the views of babies by observing their interaction and using parents or carers as representatives [emphasis added]."

What the hell will the report on the views of babies say? Someone pinch me.