I am a volunteer at a local school (doing this for the sheer sake of the fun but it's also being used partly in my CCLD NVQ 3 as my nanny job doesn't cover younger age groups) and I spoke to one of the class teachers I work with yesterday about getting obs and photos of the children and whether I'd need individual parental permission.
She told me that the parents are asked to sign a form about obs and photos when the child enters the school so I wouldn't have to have them sign another as long as the pictures/documents are for personal use only (i.e. only for my portfolio).
However I wasn't too sure if this was okay, as in my placement whilst I was at uni the teacher had to have some form of permission [verbal in this case] from the Mum of the litte boy I observed, and that was only obs and no photos. I thought I'd need something for the photos at the very least? Would the school's permissions cover me as well? I'm there as a volunteer, not a student.