DDs school do little competitions (prize is usually a certificate, a badge and something small like a pencil or a sweet) the rules always say remember, this MUST be the child's own work yet every single competition there are entries that look nothing like the child's own work. As in really impressive cakes, better than a lot of adults can do, supposedly made by a 4 year old and beautiful handwriting from children who usually struggle to write their own name.
The teachers are pretty good at spotting the entries that have been done by parents and not letting them win but there were 2 mums at the gates earlier talking about how long they stayed up doing their child's entry for them and how hard it was trying to make it look like a child's work.
It just really annoys me, it's teaching your child its ok to cheat and its not fair on the kids who have stuck to the rules and worked really hard to then see they could of just got Mum/Dad to do it.