Young people with HF Autism to participate in an awareness film clip

The legal situation around minors and also around vulnerable adults is horrendous, and often seems counter-productive where the context is to help young people.

One of the consequences is the creation of committees to monitor activities involving children and vulnerable adults, on which i've served.

But I've also come across this with the complexities surrounding student projects - you'd be amazed how many student projects by supposedly "streetwise" students involve interviewing or even fiilming kids hanging around the streets in order to study social interconnectivity, youth culture, the reasons underlying behaviours, or the geographies of young people.

Now you might think that such studies would help understand a lot of related issues, but it has to be done properly, and it is not uncommon for students to quickly find themselves in trouble with the law. A lot has to be done to stop students going off on such ventures without the proper infrastructures and clearances.

The OPs are in a not dissimilar situation I guess, young by their own admission, enthusiastic and well-meaning. But they really have to stop and think about the implications of posting on a national website for kids to film.

Parents might well consent thinking this is an autism organisation and trusting that it would be done properly.

But you have to stop and think - people with unlawful intentions to film kids could pose on this website as an autism organisation. That's why it needs to be properly set up, registered and vetted. Also the request for kids to film would not be permitted in this fashion.

Well intentioned maybe, but thoughtless and irresponsible

The legal situation around minors and also around vulnerable adults is horrendous, and often seems counter-productive where the context is to help young people.

One of the consequences is the creation of committees to monitor activities involving children and vulnerable adults, on which i've served.

But I've also come across this with the complexities surrounding student projects - you'd be amazed how many student projects by supposedly "streetwise" students involve interviewing or even fiilming kids hanging around the streets in order to study social interconnectivity, youth culture, the reasons underlying behaviours, or the geographies of young people.

Now you might think that such studies would help understand a lot of related issues, but it has to be done properly, and it is not uncommon for students to quickly find themselves in trouble with the law. A lot has to be done to stop students going off on such ventures without the proper infrastructures and clearances.

The OPs are in a not dissimilar situation I guess, young by their own admission, enthusiastic and well-meaning. But they really have to stop and think about the implications of posting on a national website for kids to film.

Parents might well consent thinking this is an autism organisation and trusting that it would be done properly.

But you have to stop and think - people with unlawful intentions to film kids could pose on this website as an autism organisation. That's why it needs to be properly set up, registered and vetted. Also the request for kids to film would not be permitted in this fashion.

Well intentioned maybe, but thoughtless and irresponsible