The plans would mean individuals in families with a history of violencecould be under suspicion. Paul Cavadino, chief executive of crimereduction charity Nacro, criticised the plans: "Children who becomeviolent often have a history of family violence. But not all children ofviolent families become violent themselves. The police would end up withlarge amounts of information and I cannot see that they could doanything sensible with it."
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Home Office has its duty of publicprotection as its top priority".
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