Cpontactpoint problems

[Pete Mitchell]

David Hansen wrote  on 24-03-09 09:18:
> <http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/articl
> e5962974.ece> outlines some of the problems with this nightmare system.
> 
> "Some adopted children whose identities should be shielded are listed 
> on the database by both their original and their adopted surnames, with 
> a link between the two."
> 
> "In other instances, shielding simply disappears from the records of 
> vulnerable children every time that the database is updated 
> automatically from central government databases, such as the school 
> census or the child benefit database."

Not that schools can be trusted to use their childrens' data ethically 
anyway ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7963081.stm
"The parents of a girl who died suddenly have received a school letter 
demanding she improve her attendance."

The more power we give to incompetents, the more incompetently we will 
be ruled.

-- 
Pete Mitchell