CCTV cameras removed from school toilets

Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors have today posted some extremely welcome news on their website: CCTV cameras installed in the toilets of West Calder High and Whitburn Academy schools have been removed.  Their removal follows a vigorous campaign on the part of parents who were outraged that the school would seek to place cameras in such a sensitive area.

This is clearly a victory for common sense.  Any right-thinking person would conclude that monitoring school toilets with CCTV cameras is a gross invasion of children's privacy.  The risks of this footage falling into the wrong hands are too horrifying to think about.

As we often point out at Big Brother Watch, there is already more CCTV in schools in the UK than anywhere else in the world.  Wouldn’t schools be better off spending the money on educating their pupils, rather than spying on them?”