What a surprise. No actually. The whole scheme seems to me another colossus with feet of clay.
It sounds like once again somebody interpreted at a national level, in a creative and fast way, the idea I shared through this list - like some charities' managers, lobbyists and politicians tend to do quite often, so they do not to lose such 'opportunity' of grabbing ideas for free in the cloud! and no need to ask an adviser neither.
I sent the idea also to my MP's office, suggesting benchmarking and intepretation of data related to diseases, water quality, welfare benefits and GP practices within any single local authority; it may be also useful to check correlations with names of doctors, nurses, and even hospitals and surgeries' receptionists and with many other local indicators of course. In other terms, you need a model before starting and underneath any technicality for implementing a data collection, exactly as you had to build a skyscraper - it takes time and you have to pay the right, competent designers.
Now, the controls needed within a population of max few thousands people do not scale for a population of millions.
Briefly said, if such a scheme to protect children from recurrent abuses has any chance of becoming feasible then it should be mandatory, for instance, to identify children with their own passports - because in this Country we do not have any other way to prove identity of people, at least if they are British nationals and refugees.
Best wishes to all of us for a fab 2013!
Brunella Longo
Information Management Adviser
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
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