The move comes after Action on Rights For Children (Arch) raised concerns with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) last year that data uploaded to a system introduced by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) could lead to the possible identification of children.
The Youth Justice Management Information System (YJMIS) collects more personal data from YOTs than the system it replaced in July last year, including postcode and date-of-birth details. The ICO has now ruled the data represents personal information and is in discussion with the YJB over how to address the situation.
Terri Dowty, director of Arch, said letters have been sent to all local authority chief executives and YOT managers calling on them not to include personal data in any future uploads and to ask the YJB to delete any previously uploaded data.
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