Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database
A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, a major new report on government databases has claimed. Serious concerns are also raised about the NHS Summary Care Record Service, and its potential for abuse, with an independent […]
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Laming – review IT for children’s services
The government must look at rolling out a single national IT system for children’s services because local IT systems are hampering progress with child protection, according to a report from Lord Laming. Lord Laming’s latest review of child protection, commissioned in the wake of the Baby P tragedy, was published last week and all its […]
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ContactPoint goes live
The government has launched its national children’s database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country plus the name and address of any professional working with them. The controversial database has been criticised by civil liberties groups and some children’s campaigners, but backed by other children’s organisations and both the Royal […]
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ContactPoint delayed for further testing
The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme was to have begun in October. The delay is the second postponement of the system that was originally due to have gone live in spring 2008. The project was delayed in November 2007 to a […]
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Police to get access to national child database
Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal activity.
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Children’s database work resumes after review
Ministers are to press ahead with plans to develop the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, despite an independent security review identifying a “significant risk” to the system due to differing security procedures from organisations who will access the data. The decision follows the publication of the executive summary of the report by accountants Deloitte and Touche, […]
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Children’s database delayed to review security
The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full security review can take place, following last week’s HM Revenue and Customs child benefit data loss scandal. The new system, originally due to go live in spring 2008, has been postponed and is now due […]
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Initiate to help deliver national child database
Capgemini UK has selected Initiate Systems Inc to provide the foundational linking and matching technology for the UK national children’s services database ContactPoint. Ultimately the records representing 11m children across England from birth to the age of 18 will be linked together within ContactPoint. ContactPoint is a key element of the government’s ‘Every Child Matters: […]
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Capgemini wins ContactPoint child database contract
Capgemini has been awarded a £40m contract by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to build and host ContactPoint – an online directory being developed to support communications between those working with children and young people. The new system, due to begin operation in 2008, will hold records of all children in England […]
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