Re: UK child database - one more step to a Police state


"Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:20060831164551.ECD2D17246@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The first link below is a June 26, Daily Telegraph news article detailing
how all children in the UK will be monitored and tracked on a database in
order to prevent child abuses, and this is starting in two years time
(2008).
The remaining two links are recent developments since then.

http://tinyurl.co.uk/jr2a
http://tinyurl.com/n8oyj
http://tinyurl.com/o45fr

It seems laudable on the surface, but as is the case with government
initiatives f this type, it is completely over the top. The article
reports
that two warning flags on a child's record will automatically initiate an
investigation by child services. The warning flags can be added by
doctors,
nurses, teachers, e.t.c, for anything deemed "not normal" - this can be as
innocuous as a teacher noting that a child is not getting 5 portions of
fruit
& vegetables a day; or a child failing to make progress towards "state
targets"
which can include questions about whether the parent provides a "positive
role
model" or the state of a parent's "mental health"!

Putting aside the moral & civil liberty issues surrounding the creation of
the database, this approach ? which is typical of the Blair government ?
will
needlessly populate the database with a lot of ?noise? overwhelming child
services while allowing real abuses to go undetected.


It is another example of Blair's government using avoidable failures on
its
part to put in place policies that penalise the innocent population, erode
civil liberties, and create databases that increasingly monitor and track
every
aspect of our lives. A climate of fear and anxiety is being cynically
exploited
by this government to brow-beat us into exchanging our liberty for
security.

Well said.

More info here:

<http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2006/08/common_assessment_framework_in.html>

<http://databasemasterclass.blogspot.com/>


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