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“The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) said this week, in a statement to the BBC Radio 4 Programme You and Yours, that schools who refused school dinners to children who don’t want their fingerprints scanned might be in breach of the law, reports The Register. This contrasts with the overdue guidance note it issued on school fingerprinting in the summer. This application of fingerprint technology at Morley High School, Leeds, had forced one parent to make her child packed lunches, since the school provided no alternative way for children to receive their dinner. John Townsley, head teacher of Morley High School, told You and Yours: “We have given parents an opt out. The opt out is that you don’t have to have anything to do with the system whatsoever and that you then have the responsibility as a mum, dad or carer to provide a very healthy alternative to your child.”
Kable - ‘No prints, no food’ policy slammed - 5 October 2007
