Not allowed to take a photo of school nativity..

LJM

maybe each school is different but i know ours is very hot on policies etc, i did my stint on the board of govenors and the amount and regularity of which you have to re write and ammend is astonishing

GobbledyGook

Madmel wrote: »

I've been working in the same school since 2002 and have had 2 CRB checks done by them. All staff are now on a 3 year cycle for CRB checks being kept up to date. Any new school in which I do even half an hour's work per week requires a separate CRB check. Peripatetic staff have a nightmare with this.

Not only that, but after working in my school for 7.5 years, I was asked to produce evidence of my degree and PGCE. My degree was awarded in 1989 and PGCE in 1994 so it was not much fun trying to find the certificates. What really annoyed me was that the school have my DfES number, which is only given when you get your accreditation. To get on the PGCE course, I had to provide evidence of my degree so by my reasoning, the fact I have a DfES number shows that my degree and PGCE have been checked. Presumably this all creates employment for someone...!

Indeed it's a nightmare. I now work 5 days a week and I'm in a different school each day on a 3 week rota - so I have 15 disclosures. It's ridiculous - I can understand it for the staff who work in some schools in 1 authority area and some in another, but when they are all for the same authority it's a piece of nonsense imo.

moomoomama27

LJM wrote: »

maybe each school is different but i know ours is very hot on policies etc, i did my stint on the board of govenors and the amount and regularity of which you have to re write and ammend is astonishing

Personally I think alot of these policies are way overboard! Fair enough if one is to be left along with a group of children, but in the case of voluntary readers (reading in a classroom with a teacher always there), and helping out with daytrips out, or even a playgroup! If there's no time alone with a child/ren, and as long as a teacher or main leader has a CRB check then that should really be enough! TBH they are pretty pointless, because unless someone has committed a crime, they are useless, and even in someone has (Ian Huntley FE), it's not always picked up due to legal technicalities!

Gleeful

There are companies out to make a quick buck with this sort of thing. I'm a performing arts teacher and in the run up to Christmas my pigeon hole became full of mailings from companies offering to film and edit our school shows for free, provided they could sell the DVD on to the parents afterwards. Needless to say, as with 99% of the junk mail I get at work on a regular basis, it went in the paper bin.

Gleeful

bylromarha wrote: »

...no they aren't.

There are a pile of teachers in schools today that have never had a CRB check as CRB checks were made law after they got their jobs. I found this information out when I went to a (now defunct) VBS workshop April last year.

If a teacher or classroom assitant hasn't changed job since 1997, then they are likely to not have a CRB check as schools are only requested to get a new CRB check when they change job.

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Nope, you're wrong. All List 99 teachers are now in the process of being CRB'd.

lindos90

jamespir wrote: »

we all know the reason that the schools dont like you taking pics is cause we are all on red alert in case little jack or emilys dad/brother/uncle is a peodphilie but its acceptable to have a teacher film the kids then sell the dvd to anybody who wants to buy it how can they make sure this dvd does not get into the hands of a pervert

its just ridiculous

Well until this discussion, that was basically what I thought, but then I didnt realise about the implications of some children at risk and in care, as other posters have said. Ive obviously lead a sheltered life, as none of those reasons had occured to me at all, and they are valid to be honest, and I am glad that I have been enlightened. Whether that is the reason our school has decided on the policy I will never know.

If they have done this to protect a child from a violent father, then yes I support that. Shame on people who take photos that include other children, and put them on facebook, not only have they lead schools to make 'blanket policies' they could have jepodised a childs safety, which is much more serious than stopping me taking a photo! (puts it in perspective really doesnt it):(

I can see there are lots of valid reasons for not taking photos, from 'putting the children off', 'obscuring the view of the audience' right through to protecting a childs identity, but I still maintain that the school in my case, whatever their motivtion, have gone about it the wrong way. They have lost my support and their credibility.