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Camera surveillance may be brought in to daycare centresWednesday 10 August 2011 Social affairs minister Henk Kamp and daycare organisations are in talks on the possible introduction of camera surveillance in creches, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. The government has agreed to spend nearly €25m next year on improving the supervision of day care in the wake of the Amsterdam child abuse scandal. Cameras are one option under consideration, the paper says. Creche worker Robert Mikelsons has admitted abusing up to 88 children in his care, either at a creche or while he babysat for them at home. Much of the abuse was able to take place because Mikelsons was alone with the children. The supervision of creches is currently up to local authorities. The Netherlands has 12,400 creches and after school centres. © DutchNews.nl
Although I'm a big fan of personal privacy, in this case I think the cameras are a good idea. Children can often not talk about the terrible things that (may) happen to them, and they are extremely vulnerable. By Bill | August 10, 2011 5:12 PM most good daycares have a good self governing system of multiple carers in the room, open views across the spaces (such as windows along the walls of the room including the changing area) and roaming staff who pop in at all sorts of times to lend a hand. should these not cover the surveillance aspect without the need for cameras? after all it was image-taking equipment and it's misuse which began this sorry affair. By bepod | August 10, 2011 8:36 PM Great idea. Stop the creation of child pornography with state sanctioned child pornography. Now the pedophiles will have even more fodder for their sick enjoyment. Stupid. By matt mcall | August 11, 2011 4:17 PM
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Is this proposal to catch pedophiles or to get the young slaves ready for their life in an open-air surveillance prison?
Judging by the story last week about how useless most security cameras are at catching real predators, I would have to guess the latter.
By Geert Van Leeuwen | August 10, 2011 11:18 AM