In a consultation launched last year, the Department for Education and Skills proposed that details of practitioners should normally be put on the database only with the consent of the child. But in exceptional circumstances those details could be added without consent, it said.
This week children's minister Beverley Hughes placed copies of the Government's response to the consultation in the House of Commons library.
The library is closed to the public but Children Now has obtained a copy of the report. It shows that some 24 per cent of respondents to the consultation disagreed with the proposal and a further 10 per cent were not sure.
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