THE boss of a photography firm which offered to remove additional support needs children from a class photo has apologised to parents.
"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?"Tempest Photography issued a statement on Friday apologising for the incident. "We are a family run business and photograph at schools across the UK and would like to reassure our customers that this is not standard procedure for our company and we are taking this matter very seriously.Mum-of-two Natalie Pinnell, 38, said her nine-year-old daughter Erin felt “erasable from society” following the “disrespectful” move.
Natalie added: "We should not be providing an option to delete one human or in the other class two humans from history."It's disrespectful, it's harmful, it's ableist, it's discriminatory and the photography company have a lot to answer for."Lily, who uses a wheelchair, was one of two kids in her class who were removed.She said: “I was devastated and furious all at the same time.