Row over use of child photo led to school expulsion

THE use of a child’s photograph without her parents’ permission to publicise the school she attended led to a row which ended in her expulsion from the school.

Yesterday her father, Colin Power, said his daughter was possibly the youngest child expelled from a pre-school in Ireland.

The photograph of the three-and-a-half year old appeared in a Sunday World supplement two weeks ago without the prior approval of her parents. It was part of a newspaper advertisement publicising the work of the Early Learning Intervention School (ELIS) in Blanchardstown and advertising the opening of a new ELIS in Galway.