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That someone is using a made up law to stop me taking a photo of my child

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Spero · 13/03/2015 15:25

My daughter is in her first ever drama festival. She is very proud and nervous. I want to take a photo of her. I am told I cannot due to the 'Child protection Act'. I am a family lawyer. I have never heard of this Act. Nor has Google.

So the objection is not that I may disrupt proceedings with annoying camera but that the mere act of taking an photo of my own child is somehow a child protection issue.

I am angry - not so much that I can't take a photo of my precious first born, but for what this reveals about the sloppy muddleheaded approach we seem to have about what 'child protection' really means.

AIBU to be so cross? Am contemplating stern letter of complaint. Making up legislation really isn't on.

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TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 19/03/2015 23:04

Hallo - good evening
Just to answer the reports on the thread (we will reply to them off board as well) [keyboard on fire this evening]

We have no intention of banning Spero over this -rest assured we don't ban folk lightly - and certainly not for complaints about one thread (tedious spammers/poo troll/perverts notwithstanding).

@Spero

What is bizarre is that there were at least 20 really offensive personal posts about me, which I didn't report because I don't see the point.

For the record though, we do ASK MNers to report personal attacks so that we can ensure that people are abiding by the guidelines.

And, in terms of dropping you a mail rather than saying things on the thread we have found through experience that this is the best MO for dealing with complaints. It's possible that the tone of our email wasn't ideal - for which apologies.

Please do report anything you would like US to take another look at - it's quite busy this evening and we may have missed something.
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TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 19/03/2015 23:15

@Spero

However, I did find the tone of that email rather odd and I think a more direct approach would be more constructive.

We've also noted this and will have a look into it going forward.

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TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 20/03/2015 10:06

Just to let you know where we are - and thanks again to those of you who've reported posts. As we hope you know, we're always happy to put our hands up and listen when we've got the tone of something wrong, which has obviously happened here. We are on the case with this - but it may take a while to get back to you.
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