Safety fears over new register of all children
Francis Elliott writes in The Times:
Senior social workers have given warning of the dangers posed by a new government register that will store the details of every child in England from next year.
They fear that the database, containing the address, medical and school details of all under-18s, could be used to harm the children whom it is intended to protect.
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ACDS) has written to officials outlining its “significant” concerns about the new system, called ContactPoint, The Times has learnt. Confusion over who is responsible for vetting users and policing the system “may allow a situation where an abuser could be able to access ContactPoint for illegitimate purposes with limited fear of any repercussions”, Richard Stiff, the chairman of the ADCS Information Systems and Technology Policy Committee, said.
The security fears are fuelled further by the admission that information about the children of celebrities and politicians is likely to be excluded from the system.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:25
2010 is coming.
Like all the new government databases, security is a secondary concern, and the ruling elite and their funding cabal will be excluded from them all.
Like communism, they are just for the masses.
September 3rd, 2007 at 20:37
State Sponsored Paranoia…or to put it another way …Socialism for everyone *else*.