Conservatives would scrap controversial ContactPoint child database
Andrew Pierce writes in the Daily Telegraph that Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, is to announce the cancellation of ContactPoint by any future Conservative government:
Mr Gove, who will announce the end of the database project in his keynote speech on Tuesday, said: “ContactPoint can never be secure. We are taking this action because we are determined to protect vulnerable children from abuse, ConactPoint would increase that risk. The government has proved that it cannot be trusted to set up large databases, and cannot promise that inappropriate people would not be able to access the database, It would be irresponsible to implement something that is such a danger to our children. After all the problems we have with this government losing sensitive data we need to do things differently. We need to invest in people. Strengthening relationships, not building another Big Brother system.”
