As predicted by Children Now (5-11 January), the Home Office has refused to back the call for a universal register of everybody working with children, saying it would be "costly and impractical".
It has instead drawn up proposals for a register of people deemed unsuitable to work with children. The alternative register will cost 10m to set up and is expected to be up and running in 2007. Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, did not think the Government had gone far enough.
But Baroness Pitkeathley, chair of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, described the plans as "another brick in the wall for the protection of children".
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