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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009 ... parliament

Yesterday in parliament
January 26 session

Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 27 January 2009 08.37 GMT

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ContactPoint database

Tim Loughton, for the Tories, condemned the setting up of a database containing the details of every child in England in a bid to safeguard them from abuse. He accused ministers of throwing money at "another expensive data disaster waiting to happen" after the launch of ContactPoint. But children's minister Beverley Hughes defended the £224m directory as enabling professionals involved with children to put "their piece of the jigsaw" into the whole picture of family support.

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I would love to believe they would scrap it, but unfortunately no longer believe them - why would they want to give away all those rights to parents whilst they do nothing about the LA 's they are in charge of i.e. Kent

until their own practices and policies are made transparent on their 'children services' - which are a joke, and family support
for relatives to be able to care for children rather than adoptions
(officers made accountable for their actions)

increasing numbers will be ex-conservatives - because the contactpoint data collected will be further abused and used against families -children will continue to be cherry picked from the poor and given to the middle classes.

Because, far from being "in charge of" local authorities, elected officials have almost no power. Policy is driven by officers under the mandate of Whitehall and/or following guidelines formulated by themselves and their peers.