Andrew Brook writes in Yachting Monthly: The RYA has called on the government to abandon plans to include recreational boats in its e-Borders programme. Two proposals have been submitted to HM Treasury, with the RYA also keen to reduce bureaucracy for organisations that provide activites for young people. e-Borders is an electronic system used to [...]
Penny Nicholls of the Children’s Society and Isabella Sankey of Liberty, writing in Guardian Comment is Free, give their views on the closure of ContactPoint: Penny Nicholls writes: As an organisation in daily contact with children across the country, many of whom desperately need better coordinated and better quality universal services, we are disappointed that [...]
According to Public Servant magazine: North Yorkshire Police have defended storing details of thousands of members of the public who have made reports. A report in The Press newspaper based in York said that more than 180,000 innocent members of the public have had details like their date of birth and ethnicity added to the [...]
Helen Wilkinson-Makey writes in Smart Healthcare: In opposition, health secretary Andrew Lansley was opposed to the SCR. “What I can assure you of is that we will stop the automatic uploading of data to a central server with it being available across the NHS network without patients’ consent,” he told the Independent in August 2009 [...]
Wendy Holden writes in the Daily Telegraph: It was on a sunny Friday morning in Majestic Wine Warehouse that my problems began. I’d popped in to replenish our stocks of Côtes de Provence rosé. When I handed over my debit card at the till, the assistant asked for all my details – address, phone number, [...]
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