Westfield Day Nursery in Easingwold, near York, has an award-winning website that shows the children's activities and achievements. The nursery was surprised to find that the Government's main agency on information technology in schools, Becta, said in its guidance Superhighway Safety that websites should not include photographs of individual children but should use only group or whole-class photographs with very general labels. The guidance also stated that websites should not use the names of children or adults in photographs.
Westfield Day Nursery owner Judith Tubb said, 'We directly ask parents to let us know in writing if they do not want their child's picture to be taken or published, but we have more than 100 children on our books and not one parent has said no.
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