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Database of 11 million children begins rollout

Posted by Glyn in Childrens Digital Rights, Identity, Privacy at January 26th, 2009

Councils in England are taking initial steps to begin use of the government’s online directory of children and those looking after them … In addition, 17 local authorities in the North West and two national voluntary sector organisations, Barnardo’s and KIDS, will begin intensive pilots of ContactPoint. Frontline staff in these areas will start training and operating the system in the spring before the pilots are rolled out across the country from the summer.
… it has been has been delayed twice, due to technical problems and concerns about security. It was due to go online in April 2008 but was put back until this month.

Source: Kable
See ORG’s Contactpoint and the eCAF: experts on film for more details on ContactPoint.

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