Last week, Lord Laming told MPs on Parliament's Education and Skills Select Committee that he had fears about the implementation. "One of the things that concerned me most in the Victoria Climbie case was the failure to implement the 1989 Protection of Children Act," he said. "The gap between the legislation and the guidance issued by Whitehall was far too wide."
Laming also said that parents should have access to information that is held on their children in the national database proposed in Every Child Matters.
"It is patronising in the extreme to say that people can't know what is on a database about them or their children," said Laming. "Whatever is on the database, parents should know about it." He added that he is in favour of a national database that shows what organisations young people have visited but does not hold detailed information, which would be stored by the services.
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