Should I report this?

[guesswhosbac]

A family members partner has posted photos and videos of her child's school play all over Facebook and Instagram this morning with all the other children's faces clearly visible. I was when I saw it as she is a teaching assistant in another school herself! This is a massive safeguarding issue. Would I be unreasonable to report this to her school (I wouldn't tell them it was her, I would just say one of their staff) so they can update their safeguarding training and to her child's school so they can remind parents not to do this?

Behave.

Absolutely, OP; as you say, massive Safeguarding issue.

Ignore the unhelpful comment above.

As a parent my school forms state i don't want my child's face all over social media - I have the maximum privacy restrictions on my own accounts so I'd be pissed if another parent decided to share a video/photo with my child on it

So yes I'd report it - but it really needs to come from a parent? Not you?

Why don't you just speak to the family member concerned in passing asking if they are sure they are allowed to share something like that?

Have you mentioned it to her? That would be the first step.

I would private message her and ask her to remove it first, if she refuses then I'd report her. Yes, she should know better but who hasn't done something daft without thinking before.

Some schools/classes are ok with it if nobody has stated they don't want their kid on social media.

Speak to your family member instead of going behind their back to report to their work (when it wasn't even a photo taken at their work).

Yes please report her asap I would not be happy with that all op

Missrks so if there was a child in that class who's mum had escaped domestic violence and was living in a refuge you would be happy for it to be posted online which school that child goes to? Or what about a child in care or who is up for adoption who's parent finds out what school they go to and turns up at the school? You would be ok with this?

So if you report but don’t mention who did it, then the photos will stay online for longer? Surely you would want them to be taken down, unless that isn’t your main aim?

She posted them on a story so they will be gone after 24 hours but anyone could still see them in that time.

guesswhosbac- is it now? so the partner will be googling every school in 100 mile radius in hope he’ll find a picture ??. If she escaped domestic violence the partner won’t know what area she is therefore he cannot look for the kid .
Take a chill pill

Could you contact family member saying nice picks of child but is she sure it is allowed due to safeguarding, and suggest she gets her partner to take it down ASAP?

All over Facebook and Instagram has quickly turned into on her story for 24 hours.

Don't you like this person or something?

I had rather thought that one of the benefits of this year would be we would not have people minimising the threat to some extremely vulnerable children/families by sayin g it is OK to break school safeguarding restrictions on social media.

Obviously not.

Some people can be very determined in checking for photos, especially at this time of year. Plus it is easy for there to be links between people you don't realise. 'Look there's my niece singing her solo'....in the background is colleague's child who is now in a refuge...

I'm pretty sure the kids parents would have signed a social media thingy saying they're OK with their kids on social media. Our school do this so our kids appear on the school fb page. Just ask her! Don't just report ffs.

We're very strict with our DC and SM. I'd be livid if someone did this. PLEASE report the idiot.

A couple of years ago, I would have said not to worry.

However, there was an incident a couple of years ago at a local school - a parent put a complaint on a FB group with a photo of her dc at a school event and a whole load of others. Said complaint for attention of the local then national news, who printed the photo without consent from anyone other than the person who has originally posted - cue lots of complaints from parents who first knew about this parents complaint when they saw a picture with their children in the back ground of national paper website.

The photo and subsequent complaints to the school got so out of hand, the head threatened to ban all photos other than official ones being taken at school events.

So, yes I would suggest that you speak to the person about having it taken down, and potentially ask the school to remind everyone about social media rules.

LST Our school permitted parents to take photos for personal use only. My adopted DC would not have been able to perform if they were going to be plastered all over SM by random parents. And my DC had already missed out enough.

it is possible that the school permit it, but not very likely these days.

Massive massive safeguarding issue and needs to be deleted straightaway!
We are told by youngest child’s school that we are absolutely not under any circumstances to post media that shows other children. We’re not even allowed to take a screenshot and blur the other faces out.

Dont lots of parents do this?

My fosterlings are not allowed to appear on social media etc. As foster parents we are often not a million miles away from birth families and some of those birth families are not afraid to threaten all sorts to foster parents, so yes, on those grounds I would alert the school to the fact that photos have been posted.

Wavey they might do, but they shouldn't.

'Your' (or Their) desire to plaster something all over SM, doesn't trump my child's need for privacy.

YANBU, if she works at a different school she wouldn't have access to any info about children excluded from social media, but regardless anyway, that is for school released media and not a parent putting what they want on Facebook. Lots of ignorance as well around the potential implications for some children.

There’s no point reporting it without saying who it is. The school will have no proof and can only issue a generic reminder.

Report or don’t, but don’t do this half arsed wishy washy middle ground

It’s a major safeguarding issue.

We have some children in our school who get changed and walk home in non school uniform clothes incase they are seen and family member sees what school they attend.