I have expressed my surprise in an earlier post that the Government’s online directory of children’s services, the "ContactPoint" database, has not attracted more attention and media coverage. Well, at last, the day after the Government announced the first steps to activate ContactPoint, parents, security experts and opposition parties have eventually found their voice. The database will contain details of all 11 million children living in England and will be available to at least 330,000 workers in the education, health, social care, youth justice and voluntary sectors.
For more, see the following stories
For more, see the following stories
- First stages of ContactPoint activation starts today (DCSF)
- Children's database ContactPoint launched despite security fears (Daily Telegraph)
- Politicians and Celebrities to be protected from child database (Daily Telegraph)
- Alarm over security of children's database (Times)
- Vast databases 'no longer the answer to social work failures' (Times)
- New children's database faces criticism (Guardian)
- Them and us child register: Politicians and celebrities can keep their details off a controversial new database (Daily Mail)
- 390,000 to access child database (BBC News Online)
Independent schools are required by law to provide a certain amount of pupil and parental information to the DCFS for the ContactPoint database, although the precise details of how this will be provided have not yet been made available.
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