The Economist web site is hosting an online debate on the motion “This house believes that any loss of privacy from digitising health care will be more than compensated for by the welfare gains from increased efficiency”. Here are excerpts from the opening remarks: The moderator’s opening remarks Mr Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Welcome to our [...]
Sheila Struthers writes in the Scottish Review: Getting It Right For Every Child (Girfec) and its English equivalent Every Child Matters (ECM) are constantly presented as having been developed as a result of the Laming report (published on 28 January 2003) on the death of Victoria Climbié or, in Scotland, the Herbison report (released to [...]
David Millward writes in the Daily Telegraph: The Government is refusing to ratify a deal which would see police forces in all 27 member states to be given access to databases that contain information about vehicle owners. Under the proposals, which will be put before EU transport ministers on Thursday, motorists caught committing an array [...]
Darren Allan writes in TechWatch: Earlier this week, you may remember we wrote a story about the NHS Choices website, and the fact that it allows Facebook, along with Google and some other third party sites, to track user activity. Because there’s a “Like” button for Facebook built into the NHS Choices page, whether you [...]
Josie Appleton writes in The Spectator about reaction within the Church of England to CRB checks and the Independent Safeguarding Authority: Though the church as an institution has become horribly infected with CRB madness, with a love of petty regulations and procedures, there are members of the resistance within it. The former Bishop of Durham, [...]
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