The producer of a damning television documentary featuring Bradford's Delph Hill estate is returning to face the response of local residents.

Community leaders are to meet the maker of Eyes of a Child - a harrowing programme which showed life from the perspective of some of the estate's youngsters.

Since it was screened on BBC1, residents have been up in arms about the way it portrayed Delph Hill, saying it focused solely on its negative aspects.

But producer Kate Blewett said the programme aimed to reveal the life of particular children - not the estate itself.

She said: "The programme represented lots of children around the country - it was not a reflection of life on Delph Hill."

The programme showed two eight-year-olds talking about drug deals, a six-year-old boasting of his ability to hotwire JCBs and lines of boarded-up houses by the rusting wrecks of abandoned cars.

Mrs Blewett is now to meet with members of the Delph Hill Residents' Group to hear their concerns.

Maureen Hall, from the group, said: "They did not show any proper footage of the estate. You only got to see a shot of some fencing because there were two lads fighting there."

She said the footage fuelled misconceptions that Delph Hill was a bad area and spoke of the multi-million redevelopment programme currently under way there.

"If you mention you are from Delph Hill you sometimes get funny looks - this kind of thing does nothing to help".

Some people are angry they had been featured in the programme without their knowledge or consent.

But Mrs Blewett said the BBC's lawyers had viewed the film and there was no risk of legal action against it.

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