I submit this email for discussion apologies in advance if the scenario
offends anyone.
A recommendation from the Children's green paper was as follows:
"Recommendation 17. The Government should actively explore the
benefit to children of setting up and operating a national children’s
database on all children under the age of 16. A feasibility study should
be a prelude to a pilot study to explore its usefulness in strengthening
the safeguards for children. (paragraph 17.121)
The Government’s Identification, Referral and Tracking Project is
exploring how information about children can be shared appropriately
within and between agencies, and more easily transferred across local
authority boundaries, to make sure children receive the services tailored
to their needs at the earliest opportunity"
The intention behind this recommendation is to protect children and
ensure that various agencies are able to make links regarding, say, a
child's visit to the A&E ward of different hospitals showing the same
injuries which could be a sign of abuse etc. And this shared information
is for a good purpose and aims to protect the vital interests of the child.
However, this database also holds info on the child's education etc.
Given that a system used by a school to hold data on pupils will also be
held by the LEA. It may well be that the fingerprints etc could be included
on the database.
Children, of course, do tend to grow into adults and within a few years,
the govt will have a nice database on the adult population including
fingerprints; initially collected to stop children being incorrectly charged in
school libraries. ID card anyone?
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Thank you and kind regards
Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
Rob Dawson
Institutional Compliance Officer
University College Chester
Parkgate Road
Chester
CH1 4BJ
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Tel: 01244 392892
Fax: 01244 392821
http://www.chester.ac.uk/
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