To think this is a safeguarding issue?

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There's a nursery in our town which has a hall attached that is hired out for parties. To get to the party venue guests go through the nursery cloak room with the names and pictures of all the children on the pegs.

Anyone could be attending a party and see who goes to the nursery. Isn't this a massive safeguarding issue? Should I report it?

No, it's not a safeguarding issue.

Seeing a child and knowing their name hasn't been banned.

It could at a stretch be a data protection issue, but I doubt it.

thepoostories in mumsnet style, did you mean to be so rude?
I work in a school and from the 2 hour training we had to sit through this was my understanding. Please feel free to add your expert opinion as you clearly know far more than me.

@whatsleep

If you really did have two hours of training and your take-away from it was what you stated above, I suggest you approach your workplace to suggest that the training they delivered was piss-poor.

None of what you listed above is a “breech (sic) of GDPR”.

still not given your expert opinion, answered my question with a question Are you a politician? Thepoostories

I didn’t ask you a question.

@HeddaGarber
Picture and first name could definitely cause problems with nursery aged children!

If my adopted chilfdren’s pictures and first names were displayed in a public place, a member of their extended birth family could recognise them and inform the (abusive) birth parents. Luckily our nursery are brilliant and would never be so naive as to do this.

I know of adoptive families where something similar to this has happened, leading to one family having to be rehomed.

I meant @HeddaGarbled !

I am the person responsible for safeguarding training in my workplace and no, what is described in the OP isn't a safeguarding issue.

Or a data protection one.

I also agree that whatsleep has received training from someone who clearly hasn't understood much about safeguarding. Or GDPR.

I distinctly remember having pictures of different objects for "my" peg at infant/junior school. I had a brightly-coloured snail for a long time, amongst others.

That seems to be the obvious solution here, rather than photos of actual children which is just needlessly asking for trouble.

Careful @HaventGotAllDay or you’ll be accused of being a politician

(I am currently sitting in front of 54 pieces of writing and chuckling at the idea that I might have to start NOT having surnames on them! That'd be fun. )

Some things in life are not black and white. So to answer the OP I would say “no not necessarily, but it could be considered poor practice.”

Thanks for the input. @Girlicorne - your point was exactly why I was concerned as protected children could be exposed. I don't think the nursery parents would be aware non-nursery people would have access to their cloakroom. I think I will report to the manager that the combination of the photo and name might not be wise.

My children do not have photos on their peg at nursery - but the other children do.
I do not allow any photos of my kids to be displayed in the classroom either for this very reason, not knowing who may enter and see the photos.
It is a safeguarding issue if your children have reason to be safeguarded.
Mine do hence no photos on their peg/wall displays etc. It's miserable.