Childrens database will not be secure

Not a massive surprise but still good to read that Deloitte and Touche have understood and identified the problems inherent to the ContactPoint database. Of course this Labour Government have decided to accept the report's call for "further controls" but will proceed anyway as according to Children's minister Kevin Brennan "The ContactPoint project will undertake a rapid impact assessment to determine the most effective approach in our specific context, and will build this into the deployment plan."

It would be good to read the detail in this report but of course we can't, because the government refused to publish the Deloitte Touche report in full, releasing only a five-page summary. Shadow Families Minister Maria Miller said: "The government did not say that the Deloitte report would be confidential when it was announced in November last year and it is unacceptable for (schools secretary) Ed Balls to decide to withhold the findings now.


This Labour Government is profoundly anti-democratic and anti-Freedom of Information and I fear they will become increasingly so over the next year or so.