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From: "Ibrahim Hasan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [data-protection] Information Sharing Index
> Local authority colleagues may wish to look at this document and
> respond.
> Information Sharing Index: Consultation on Draft Information Sharing
> Index (England) Regulations
>
> This consultation seeks views on the draft regulations made under
> section 12 of the Children Act 2004. The regulations, once in force,
> will provide a legal framework for the operation and maintenance of the
> information sharing index.
>
> http://www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/conDetails.cfm?consultationId=1431
>
>
> By the end of 2008, there will be a national Information Sharing Index
> to enable those working with children to identify and contact one
> another easily and quickly. This will facilitate and speed up the
> sharing of information about children and young people in need of
> intervention.
>
> I have not seen much publicity about this. Whilst any measures which
> will result in better protection of children are very welcome, I am just
> mindful of the Information Commissioner's recent report and his words
> that we are waking up to a surveillance society.
I have briefly looked at the Regulations and the term "Index" seems slightly
ambiguous. I am a statistician and an index is equivalent to an indicator eg
the Retail Price Index - this is a database.
Nick Landau
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