2. Some campaigners for children's rights have condemned proposals for what they see as covert surveillance of all children. A spokeswoman for Action on Rights for Children, Terri Dowty, fears databases will be open to abuse by paedophiles, pointing to "the spate of recent prosecutions of 'caring' professionals who have abused children".
3. Information passed on must be accurate and checked. But what lengths are children's services professionals expected to go to to validate it? Is checking information part of their skills? Might important information be lost because it could not be verified? But if hearsay, hunches and vague worries are passed on, inaccuracies and injustice might follow. Agencies might be swamped with far more information than they can process. Guidelines are awaited.
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