School Spying

A council has admitted to using powers designed to track criminals to ensure a family wasn’t lying about where they lived to get their child into a school. Poole Borough Council says officers trained in Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 procedures “will attempt to establish if the family leave their stated address in the morning and return to it in the evening” if an application is believed to be fraudulent. Surveillance was undertaken when the family put their house up for sale but remained in the property until the end of January to allow their daughter to qualify for a school place.