FURIOUS parents have hit out at a Midland school after it installed surveillance cameras in pupil toilets.

Students returned to Grace Academy in Chelmsley Wood after half-term to discover the Big Brother-style equipment had been set up in male and female loos.

The school insists the spy cameras are only pointing at the sinks in a bid to deter vandal attacks - and have not yet been activated.

But some pupils are said to be so worried about being pictured in the toilets that they are now refusing to use the facilities. One mum whose teenage daughter attends the school said the cameras were a 'total invasion of privacy'.

The hospital worker said: "She came home from school and told me that security cameras had been installed in the girls' toilets but we didn't know anything about it.

''It's completely wrong as that footage could easily get into the wrong hands.

"You would expect the school to have consulted parents first.

"Yet we received no information and no letters have been sent home explaining this decision.