More than three times as many officials will be able to access sensitive information on every child in England and Wales held in the forthcoming ContactPoint database than estimates circulated by the government suggest. ... Maria Miller, the Tories' shadow minister for children, schools and families said "They have grossly underestimated the number of people who will have access to children’s data and now more children will be put at risk. ContactPoint should be scrapped." ... Baroness Sue Miller, a Liberal Democrat peer with a special interest in data protection issues, said: "The ContactPoint system was dubious to start with. It would have been irrelevant to key cases such as that of Victoria Climbié. This latest revelation merely makes it at least three times worse."Source: The Register
