The Evening Standard reports on the release of an “Information Sharing vision statement” by the Department of Constitutional Affairs:
A vast database containing a file on every man, woman and child is being planned by the Government in a ’sinister’ expansion of the ‘Big Brother’ state.
Personal information containing details of every aspect of an individual’s life [...]
Liz Davies (a senior lecturer in children and families social work at London Metropolitan University) writes about the Victoria Climbie case and the Children’s Index in The Guardian:
The key lesson to have been learnt was that Victoria’s name should have been on the child protection register with a multi-agency protection plan in place. Yet, astonishingly, [...]
Reporting the Prime Minister’s final, tumultuous speech to the TUC, the BBC notes:
He pressed the case for ID cards, saying that they were necessary to deal with mass immigration and the growth of identity fraud.
The official script of the speech as Mr Blair intended to deliver it is on the TUC web site. Here’s the [...]
Sarah Womack writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Teenagers say they might stop using contraception and abortion services because they do not trust the confidentiality of the new national children’s database.
Research by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner says the Children’s Information Sharing Index is causing anxiety and arousing suspicion.
Some of the young people polled felt that [...]
Eileen Fairweather, the journalist who helped expose the Islington child abuse scandal, writes in the Mail on Sunday about the Children’s Index:
I have investigated child abuse scandals for nearly 20 years and interviewed many paedophiles.
Most, I am certain, will feel that, with the index, all their birthdays have come at once. It will help them [...]
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