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I am very apprehensive- the authorities have an amazing capacity for carelessness when it comes to our personal data. So in light of this incompetence and fearing something even more sinister, I want my kids to remain out of the database.
27. ContactPoint is a national database partitioned into local authority areas. Although the regulations will specify the categories of practitioner to be granted access, the final decision as to who may do so will be left to local authorities. The government expects that around 330,000 people will have access to ContactPoint.
28. It is impossible to create a system on this scale that is both functional and secure. The government tacitly acknowledges this by advancing an intention that the records of celebrity children and those who are, for example, escaping domestic violence will not appear on ContactPoint. Nonetheless, the government insists that the system will be secure and points to the fact that everyone with access will undergo CRB checks; access will be by two-factor authentication and an audit system will detect improper access.
29. Criminal record checks have limited value. Within the education and social care sectors, increasing numbers of staff are from overseas and it is not possible to check their histories beyond, at most, obtaining information as to whether they have criminal convictions. Schools are advised that:
'If attempts have been made to make checks (through obtaining a Certificate of Good Conduct or similar) but it has not been possible then the school is not required to take further action.' [31]
Wouldn't have thought there is a way to opt out as there is allways a back door...i.e. any time police are called to an incident where a child is present the local social services are advised, hence details added onto a database even though no intervention is needed.
They need to get the Probation Service databases sorted out, if lm right they only have local databases and not a national one, therefore people can fall through the net and not be traced upon release from prison
There is no way to opt out of the database. Records can be shielded in cases where the are child protection concerns but every child will be on the database.
In August 2006, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) announced that the database will not include telephone numbers or addresses of celebrities' children
can only mean that they are not confident in the security of the data.
How to opt out of ContactPoint
. So in light of this incompetence and fearing something even more sinister, I want my kids to remain out of the database.
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