A FATHER has issued a warning after his daughter cut her arm on broken glass while travelling down a slide in a children’s playground.

Georgia Robinson, aged four, was playing with her friend Eivissa Joyce at Westbury Sports Club in Bury, when she was hurt on Sunday afternoon.

After hearing her screams, parents looking after the two girls came to Georgia’s rescue by picking the glass out of her arm.

They say they the slide was ridden with broken glass, which had stuck to liquid on the slide.

Her dad Lee Corrighan is now calling on any teenagers hanging around on parks to report broken glass to the council.

He said: “I understand people have nowhere to go but they must have smashed a bottle, and the glass had stuck to the liquid on the slide because it was warm.

“Fair enough, hang around on the park as well as you are being well behaved, but if anything does get broken, remember what it is actually for.

“It could be their little brother or sister playing on there.

“It is for kids, not for adults. A child is not going to think about the fact there might be glass there.”

Georgia, who lives in Newcastle, was visiting her father, who lives in Rivington Drive, on the Seddons Farm Estate, for the weekend.

Mr Corrighan said he decided to take his daughter down to the park for an hour and a half to enjoy the sunny weather.

He added: “She had gone on the slide a couple of times and we did not think anything of it, but this third time she started crying.

“My first assumption was she had banged her head, but then I saw she had quite a big laceration to her arm.

Eivissa’s mum Stacey Joyce then rushed to Georgia's aid and took her to get treated at a nearby house before returning with a dust pan and brush, paper towels and anti-bacterial spray to clean up the glass.

Stacey, aged 33, said: “We had only been there about five or ten minutes and she started screaming.

“Her dad went over and saw all the blood on her arm. She had cut it pretty badly and we saw there were loads of tiny shards of glass on the slide.

“I ran my hand across it and there was still some there so I rang the council. They sent a security man down to look at it and he taped it off and said they would come and jet wash it.

“The park is for children and it needs to be a safe place to go. As a parent, you do not want to have to check the slide for glass before they go on.

“It could have been a lot worse if she had gone down face first like kids sometimes do.”

Bury Council say security officers attended the play area after receiving a report of glass on the slide. They placed tape around the slide to warn people not to use it, and the site was then cleaned.

A spokesman said: "The parks department has since visited the site and the slide is in good working order."