Glyn Wintle, 24 March 2009
Security flaws have halted work on the internet database designed to hold the details of 11 million children and teenagers.Source: The Times... a spokeswoman for the DCSF said that the department had ordered a "pause in the ongoing data update" pending an investigation into the shielding problems.
The shielding system for vulnerable children is supposed to withdraw everything but a child’s name, sex and age from the computer record that will be available to 400,000 children’s services workers with access to the database. But local authority staff who have been uploading information on to ContactPoint have discovered that the shielding does not always work.
