Hundreds of fed up parents have slammed a raft of new punishments handed down by the new CEO of a school which have turned the school into a “concentration camp”.

As part of the new measures at Bideford College, Devon, mums and dads reported their children being sent to quiet rooms for speaking, coughing, asking for water and forgetting equipment.

As a result of the tough new measures pupils have been seen crying in lessons and once home not wanting to go back into school and requested moves.

Parent Keeleigh Mellor said her daughter was "denied her basic human rights" when a teacher took her food away, Devon Live reported.

She said: "They took my daughter's dinner, actual food, away from her last week as a punishment because she refused to go in reflection for asking a fellow student where specific equipment was needed for that lesson.

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