Questions are urgently being asked over who is to blame for the proposed editing out of disabled children from school photos, with a boss of the photography firm at the centre of the scandal insisting 'it is not company policy.' Terence Tempest, 70, was unable to explain why parents had been given the option - as he vowed to investigate how the fiasco came to be.Shouldn't he already know, if it's his company and he's a boss of it? Wouldn't he have tried to find out the moment this all blew up?
He revealed 'heartbroken' bosses were locked in crisis meetings to discover 'what the hell happened', and described the suggestion to delete children with complex needs from the class pictures as 'unacceptable'.Clearly not, since someone at the company accepted the suggestion, or - worse - suggested it themselves! Maybe this company has too many 'bosses' to run properly?
'If I was in that position I would want an apology. I don't run the company and I'm in touch with the managing director at the moment and they will decide what to do.'
It sounds like he's the only one who decided to be the spokesperson, even though everything he says sounds like he's digging a deeper hole for the company...
He said: 'I'm not sure what the current policy is frankly, it depends what we are asked to do. We just respond to what we are asked for.
'We have got another meeting coming up and will find out whether the photographer was asked to do it. Did they do it off their own back?'
If it turns out the school requested it, this is going to run and run.
2 comments:
"If it turns out the school requested it..."
That seems likely, why else would they have done it?
"That seems likely, why else would they have done it?"
I feel we're never going to really get to the bottom of this...
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