I wasn't best pleased with Ian Prince's email insinuation last February that we were asking him to support an lgbt agenda for Newsround. Surely fair reporting and inclusiveness should always be expected, as the BBC recognised in their Producers' Guidelines as far back as 1996. I'm not asking Newsround to promote any sexuality, as Mr Prince seemed to think. This is just about recognising that gay and lesbian people are people who are entitled to be treated fairly just like anyone else.

In fact I think it's entirely wrong for Newsround to promote a sexual orientation, a race or a religion. And that's exactly what effectively happened with Islam Week, a whole week (24-28 January 2005) of programmes on the Islamic religion. Many people of different faiths and also atheists believed that this week of uncritical coverage of one faith, aimed at young people, was a mistake.

Newsround explained Islam Week on the basis that Muslim children were alienated at school and they were more likely to be bullied due to the terrorist incidents on 11 September 2001 and what was happening in the middle east. They also say that Islam is the largest and fastest growing religious minority in the country. However, I think that Islam Week was not the right way to deal with prejudice. The proper way to combat bullying, alienation and Islamophobia is to advance the values of inclusiveness, tolerance and diversity in a modern society.