Can't we just have cameras in school and hospitals?

[melon234]

Thinking about the Letby case more, wouldn't it make sense on certain wards to have 24h security cameras rolling? If people are doing their job properly there will be no concern. But if there was some sort of major issue like what happened in the letby hospital it would be used with notes to put together a picture of what happened. Children's wards and neonatal wards should have cameras on the beds/cots all the time.

I'm not looking to blame people for minor mishaps but more to get to the bottom of potentially "life ruining" events.

I think the same for schools. It would protect teachers mainly. There would be no word of a student against a teachers. Schools have become increasingly violent.

Lots of schools already have cctv.

If you don’t want to be filmed having a bed bath, using a bedpan, or undressing, why are you so insistent on forcing that onto children?

I absolutely do not support CCTV areas in bays in hospitals, and I wouldn’t consent to our children being in a bay that has CCTV. On the corridors etc is standard anyway.

This would be my fear too. There are some really sick people in the world and many seem to be more tech savvy that the good guys. They wouldn't access it just for personal care footage either, a health care setting could potentially cater to a number of disturbing fetishes.

And let’s not forget in hospitals you would be literally recording people at the worst point in their life.

there is a reason that many hospitals have signs up about taking photos/videos of other people.

A key problem is cost. Not the cost of the cameras but the cost of video storage.

It is honestly very expensive to store, backup and maintain that amount of video footage. It would add several million pounds to each hospital's costs per year.