Perth and Kinross Council attracted national newspaper coverage with its recent ban on recording children's shows, along with criticism from some angry parents who decided to defy the ruling.
Judith Gillespie, development manager with the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, said, 'We have to move beyond these unhealthy and paranoid assumptions - it sends out a very bad message to children that everybody's intentions are malign.'
A spokeswoman for the council said that the ban was an interim policy. 'We became aware of this issue when a school asked where it stood under the Data Protection Act. It came up shortly before a school performance, and some parents had contacted us to say they didn't want their children to be filmed or photographed.
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