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Why no bodycams/CCTV allowed in special school?

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Please can someone explain why schools are unable to use bodycams or CCTV to aid when people have meltdowns & need to be kept safe.

I have an 8year old who is diagnosed autistic & attends a special school. He often has meltdowns & breaks things, assaults staff & sometimes other students.

He gets covered in bruises, if fact sometimes they cause the bruises & then ask me where they've come from!?

Today upon collecting him, two teachers kept him safe (infont of everyone) he was screaming & crying for us for help. We know it has to happen when he does the things he does but dad was really upset & shouted at the teacher for holding is arm inappropriately. Dad is getting worried that something terrible is going to happen.

Why aren't schools allowed to record when this happens? We did ask, they just said data protection.

But why cant they use bodycams to record meltdowns? As surely there would only be staff & my child on the video footage?

Thanks for any response 

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  • It's not that they cant, its more of that they will not. The data protection is an excuse and very bad one. Because they don't want evidence of misconduct and miss treatment of film. A lot of serious abuse goes on in special needs schools, from student being restrained in chairs, to teachers deliberately triggering problematic students into meltdown to get rid of them to make their life easier.

    You can go above the school and talk to your local MP about getting cameras installed, and raise concerns and why cameras may be needed in the school. it surprises me that they don't have camera in class rooms already. they would capture the child getting trigger making identify reasonable adjustments easier, supporting evidence of the child misbehaving.

    Honestly I think your child is being miss handled by either a teacher or teaching assistant, you need to roar at the school administration and demand reasoning for the miss handling of your child at the school gate.   

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  • It's not that they cant, its more of that they will not. The data protection is an excuse and very bad one. Because they don't want evidence of misconduct and miss treatment of film. A lot of serious abuse goes on in special needs schools, from student being restrained in chairs, to teachers deliberately triggering problematic students into meltdown to get rid of them to make their life easier.

    You can go above the school and talk to your local MP about getting cameras installed, and raise concerns and why cameras may be needed in the school. it surprises me that they don't have camera in class rooms already. they would capture the child getting trigger making identify reasonable adjustments easier, supporting evidence of the child misbehaving.

    Honestly I think your child is being miss handled by either a teacher or teaching assistant, you need to roar at the school administration and demand reasoning for the miss handling of your child at the school gate.   

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