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Fingerprint scanners are being used at two Kent nursery schools to check the identity of parents.

Springfield Lodge Day Nursery, which has sites in Dartford and Swanscombe, is scanning the prints each time parents drop off their children.

Linda Berryman, the owner of the nursery, said the measures were for the "safety and security" of the children.

But the charity Kidscape, which aims to protect children from harm, described the measure as "paranoid and overkill".

Michelle Elliot, director, said it gave the wrong message to youngsters.
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"But we don't want to give children, particularly young children, the idea that the world is so dangerous that they can't even go to nursery school without being scanned."

Ms Berryman said parents at the nursery were happy with the heightened security measures...

"There is no actual information recorded, only the information that we've already got," she said.

"There is no actual information recorded, only the information that we've already got," she said.

How (and why) did they get that? All the parents willingly submitted their fingerprints? If that's the case, then it makes me wonder why we bother grumbling about intrusive systems...