Pupils upskirting teachers increasing, NASUWT Cymru warns
Pupils secretly taking pictures up teachers' skirts and posting them on social media is becoming more of a problem, a teaching union has warned.
The issue was raised at NASUWT Cymru's conference being held in Wrexham. The comment follows the introduction of legislation by the UK government making upskirting a criminal offence. Sion Amlyn, a national executive member of the union, said it was seeing an increase in the number of reports of pupils upskirting. He told BBC Wales' Cymru Fyw: "Quite disturbingly there's an increase in the practise of upskirting or downblousing by pupils on teachers and that has a detrimental affect on the wellbeing of our members. "They suffer from depression, they don't want to go back to work again and in our mind, more needs to be done to tackle this kind of practice. "Schools are trying. There are mechanisms in schools to tackle this but I don't think they are being used properly or adequately enough." What is the current law? What are the limitations of the current situation in England and Wales? What does the new law propose?