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Post by Libby on Jan 27, 2009 21:45:27 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7850871.stmA child protection database containing the contact details for all under 18-year-olds in England will be accessible to 390,000 staff, say ministers. The ContactPoint database is intended to improve information sharing between professionals working with children. Children's Minister Baroness Morgan said parents would not be allowed to remove their children from the list. The Conservatives attacked the £224m database as "another expensive data disaster waiting to happen". The Liberal Democrats have also previously opposed what they called an "intrusive and expensive project".
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Post by Beachcomber on Jan 27, 2009 21:48:36 GMT
"A child protection database containing the contact details for all under 18-year-olds in England will be accessible to 390,000 staff, say ministers"
WHY ? ... what's the point ?
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Post by Libby on Jan 27, 2009 21:58:15 GMT
Apparently Beachy if a child is considered at risk, the database will enable all relevant info regarding that child ie doctors, school etc., to be located easily! That's all i read into it. Then all the relevant services, including social services, can be clued up on all the child's personal details. Going to cost a fortune though! Guess who's paying?!  |
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Post by Beachcomber on Jan 27, 2009 22:05:50 GMT
If it was just children 'at risk' I could possibly understand it.
But they say "database containing the contact details for all under 18-year-olds in England "
Why 'ALL' children ? it's bloody crazy !
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Post by feral on Jan 27, 2009 22:08:23 GMT
Because then when they're adults they're all in a database
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Post by Beachcomber on Jan 27, 2009 22:09:55 GMT
ooh Feral - That's scary  (You've got a devious mind) |
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Post by Scooby Do on Jan 27, 2009 22:25:07 GMT
ooh Feral - That's scary
(You've got a devious mind)
No, a logical one.
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Post by tarrant on Jan 27, 2009 22:36:31 GMT
The problem with these types of records is their accuracy.
Medical records, for example, frequently contain very serious inaccuracies of conduct, often on the basis of reports from other parties.
The huge numbers who will have access to this database is equally worrying. The professionalism of many of these people is open to question.
Hopefully the Tories will commit themselves to abolishing it. But I doubt, when they have the opportunity, they will. More likely they will say that some useful features will be retained which basically means they won't.
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