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A photography firm which 'deleted' children with disabilities or with special support needs from school photos asked a five-year-old girl with super-strength glasses to remove them because 'her mummy would like a photo of her looking pretty', MailOnline can reveal.

Tempest Photography which takes official school pictures across the UK was accused of 'inhumane' behaviour this week after it removed three children from group pictures at a Scottish primary school.

Parents were sent internet links giving them the option of ordering pictures with or without classmates who were disabled or have additional support needs, prompting one mother to say she felt like her daughter had been 'erased from history'.

Now another outraged mother Natalie Wild, 45, has revealed how a photographer from the same company asked her daughter Tilly who has serious eyesight problems to take off her thick glasses for a picture.

Ms Wild, a commercial property developer, said the request made her daughter feel 'vulnerable and scared' as she relies on her 17 times magnification glasses, and considers them to be part of her.

She complained to the company after the incident in September 2022 when Tilly was in Year One at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Primary School in Spinkhill, Derbyshire.

But after she was told that it should not have happened, another photographer from the firm made the same request to her daughter on the company's return to the school to take annual pictures last September.

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Natalie said: 'I knew it was school photo day because parents had been asked to make sure their children were smart.

'Tilly came out of school at the end of the day with the print out of her photos and handed me two different lots.

'I said, 'Oh, why have you got two photos?', and she replied that the photographer had taken her glasses off.

'I thought, 'Oh right', and I walked back to the cover teacher who said she didn't know that the photographer had done that, and she was so sorry.

'I asked what the reasoning was behind it, and she didn't know. But Tilly said that the photographer had told her, 'I would like a picture of you without your big glasses on'.

'Her glasses are incredibly strong. Often glasses are three or four plus and over six is considered strong, but her's are 17 plus because she has no lens in her eyes.

'The photographer told my child 'mummy would like a photo of her looking pretty'. I was absolutely horrified that they could say that to my five-year-old child, especially when you can see she needs these glasses and vanity doesn't come into it.

'I was absolutely furious, and I literally cried because Tilly was just five-years-old and had gone through so much already with her eyesight issues.

'I just bobbed down and asked her how it made her feel. She said, 'Mummy, I was so scared. My glasses are like my legs and help me see where I am going and how I walk.'

'We went home, and I rang Tempest. The lady on the phone tried to play it down and said that she had been asked to take them off because of the glare on the glasses.

'But I told her that they did not have that problem the previous year when Tilly was in reception and had her photo taken.

'I just didn't buy it. I said it wasn't acceptable in this day and age when we celebrate all differences and disabilities. For them to remove my child's glasses was just disgusting.

'She asked to pull up the photos on her system, and when she looked at them, she said, 'Yes, I completely agree with you. There was no need to take them off because there was no glare on the photo. We've taken those off for a vanity reason.'

'I tried to take it further with them, but I got absolutely nowhere. I got an email from a regional manager who regurgitated the same line. He then had the cheek to say that he knew how I felt because he had a granddaughter who was blind.

'There were

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