Children in the frame
So this newspaper heartily welcomes the comments from Tam Baillie, Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, who believes new clarity is needed on what is and isn't acceptable when it comes to taking photographs of young people in nurseries, schools and council-run sports facilities. As we report today, there have been examples of a mother being told she cannot take a picture of her toddler son in a leisure centre soft play area on his first birthday, and of parents being confronted by staff at swimming pools and forced to delete images they have just taken.
Of course, there are paedophiles in society who will seek to gain sexual gratification from pictures of children. This has always been the case. But we cannot allow them to fundamentally change the relationship between every parent and their child; those paedophiles cannot be allowed to shape our society.