dancingcamper Sat 15-Jun-19 09:29:48
I work in a school. Anyone could film you secretly at any time. It wouldn't all be flattering.
We are never allowed to be alone with a child out of sight of others (e.g. if doing 1:1 tutorial the door will have a window).
Given that, the job is essentially public at all times, so I have no problem with the child sharing this video.
Just to give a bit of a broader context to this, similar issues have been raised with parents recording meetings with social workers and people from CAFCASS.
Some parents have complained of being bullied or of what was actually said in a meeting being misreported or misrepresented but, being in a vulnerable position did not have the ability to argue their case. That is until the more widespread introduction of recording meetings started to happen.
Some practitioners tried to use the fact that parents felt compelled to record meetings as evidence that they were "failing to engage" and to further criticise them.
However, things have started to change and certainly CAFCASS for example explicitly tell their staff to expect to be recorded:-
We should have nothing to fear from covert recording. Our attitude should be, “I am doing my job and I have nothing to hide. I can explain why I said what I said or why I did what I did”. This is within the spirit of transparency in the family courts. We should always be transparent in our work, to meet contemporary expectations, including being able to defend whatever we say or write in a court under cross-examination, because we are working to a professional standard on behalf of a child. In this sense, we should expect that everything we say or write could become public knowledge.
I would argue that the above statement very much applies to teachers as well.
The issue of putting the video up on social media is different although, to be frank, I really have no idea what the law currently is on the issue of expectation of privacy in the workplace. Does anyone here know the answer to that?