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In south London, the newly refurbished Stockwell Park High School has nearly 100 CCTV cameras on the premises, with another 100 due to be installed.

Not only are the general areas monitored but classrooms also have cameras.

The hi-tech surveillance system dubbed Classwatch was installed after gang members broke into the school and mugged students and stole valuable equipment.

Deputy head Mike Rush says with Big Brother watching, the theft and assaults have stopped.

"As soon as we got that message out into the community that if you came on to the site here a high quality, good high definition picture would be burned onto a disc, sent to the local police station almost overnight in fact, the problem of people coming onto the school site here ceased," he said.

And the school plans to use the cameras to resolve disputes about bullying or if claims are made against teachers.