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The digital fingerprinting of children to speed up dinner service at Slough's new Muslim primary school was suspended this week after protests from parents.

Parents condemned the 'Big Brother' identification scheme on Monday when their children returned home saying their fingerprints had been required to verify whether their parents had paid for school meals and to record their eating habits.

Mr Ali said: "This has nothing to do with security and is all about speed and efficiency and healthy eating.”

Fingerprint system at centre of row withdrawn

The digital fingerprinting of children to speed up dinner service at Slough's new Muslim primary school has now been withdrawn completely.

Zafar Ali, who chairs governors at the school, said "We have written to parents and we have now withdrawn the fingerprinting system."

He said that he and other staff had met parents in the playground over the past few days and they were all very happy with the outcome.