Tipping jars, gift registries and a £1,000 bash: How children’s birthday parties became the new weddings

Long gone are the days of cheese sandwiches, bowls of crisps and a homemade cake. Today, children’s parties are far more extravagant affairs. Charlotte Cripps, who is bracing herself for her daughter’s 10th birthday Traitors-themed party, looks at the true cost of keeping up playground appearances