Ministers hope to introduce a new law allowing them to set up thenational child index this autumn. The index is designed to improveinformation sharing between children's professionals and would build onlocal information sharing databases. But opposition to the plan ismounting and children's rights campaigners claim the database wouldviolate privacy and fail to protect children.
At a conference in London last week, the former director of the Centrefor Evidence-Based Social Services Professor Brian Sheldon said thedatabase would fail to protect children. "The database will be a furtherpull towards virtual reality social work," he told the Children: OverSurveilled, Under Protected conference. "Storing this amount ofinformation will do no more than create information overload."
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