A dinner lady last week in Essex was suspended from work and facing disciplinary action for breaching confidentiality - she told parents, accidentally as she assumed that the school would have told them, that their daughter had been severely bullied at school.
Their daughter had been tied up to a fence during the lunch time break and whipped with a skipping rope. The dinner lady intervened to release her.
The mother and the suspended dinner lady met and had a conversation by chance in the local Beaver Scout group.
The family had received a communication from the school which said that the daughter had been hurt by other children, but no details were given. They were shocked when they heard the details and immediately removed the girl and her brother from the school.
Why were they not given the details by the school, or alternatively called in to the school? It would seem that the school was trying to conceal what had happened, in the hope that the whole matter would "go away".
This is the very worst aspect of our nanny state - withholding significant details and keeping us in the dark to ease their problems. There is a real problem of transparency and accountability.
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