Well, this takes the biscuit.
Can a parent refuse?
"I know you look like Mr. Howarth and your Son is waving and saying "Hi Daddy", but unless we have your fingerprint
we can't let you take your child".
This seems to be an abdication of common sense.
I wonder what will happen when one parent tells the nursery that the other parent is not allowed access due to a
court order and the possibility of abduction and they don't remove the finger print. The S**t will hit the fan then.
I'm reminded of Little Britain "The computer says 'no'".
Simon Howarth.
Quoting Roland Perry <[log in to unmask]>:
> In message
> <20080602195408.KUGM7054.aamtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@LANE1>, at
> 20:51:07 on Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Peter Lane <[log in to unmask]>
> writes
> >embers of the list may find this article interesting . . .
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7430709.stm
> >
> >Remember : "There is no actual information recorded, only the
> >information that we've already got," ( and it's only Monday!!
>
> I saw that, and almost posted something about it myself.
>
> There would be only two possible conclusions (if it's true):
>
> 1) The Nursery already had the parents' fingerprints on file
> 2) The fingerprint reader responds to something tapped out in morse
> code.
>
> But, of course, they do have a pre-scanned print on file. And it's
> likely they also record who came and went, and when [2].
>
> This must be part of a PR campaign by someone (maybe the vendor of the
> locks?) because a similar story was placed on the East Midlands tv news
> yesterday, about a community nursery in Leicester.
>
> 9 minutes 30 seconds into "watch East Midlands Today" at:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire
>
> (Only valid until later today).
>
> "If you are not on the system, you can't get in" [1]
> "All the comings and goings are recorded on a laptop".
>
> [1] Although it also has a number-pad and hopefully the fire brigade can
> get in if necessary.
>
> [2] One risk this system does *not* reduce is one parent absconding with
> the child, the very reason why children have to have their own passports
> now.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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