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Contact point will be open to 500,000 people. All of them will have CRB checks, which only prove that they HAVEN'T BEEN CAUGHT YET. How many of that 500,000 will be peadophiles?

The childs name, address, school (what if home educating), open to anyone with acess, ANY contact with drugs, hospital records, any lies dreamt up by teacher's to cover their own backs (open to a higher level of security) and NONE of it removable by the parents even if blatently wrong.

Actually it's estimated that there will be around 330,000 people able to view ContactPoint. Any contact with drugs would be under the sensitive services area and would require clearance from the organisation confirmed before they could view it. This is the same for mental and sexual health.

Any lieas dreamt up by teachers would be kept on the child's case record, which would be held by either the school or the social worker if they have one and would go nowhere near ContactPoint. There will not be any case notes on ContactPoint. Parents and Children deemed mature enough can request acces to their records on ContcatPoint, they can also request for it to be changed if it is wrong.

Parents cannot remove their children from it completely, but they can also request shielding as well as access to their childs information to ensure it is all correct

are you suggesting we dont have a sex offender's register?

ContactPoint is very secure, it will also hold little more information than there Doctor's surgery or school as and will be a damn site safer. Baby P was failed by a lack of communication, how else do you suggest we solve the problem?

how will it be safer?

To be fair, there are parents out there that will continually abuse their children. Yes there have been mistakes, and I am by no means saying that all social workers get it right every time, after all they are only human. It must be acknowledged however that there are alot of bad parents out there, and of course when they have been found once they will need to be examined with each child to decipher whether they have ceased their abusive behaviour or not.

The answer is to put the money where its needed. The training of the public services and a decent wage for social workers so that we get the best people for the job. maybe to have Health visitors that are helpful and visit the home instead of having a vastly reduced service that don't have time to actually visit the child at home.
I bet that the database will be hacked within a year and peadophiles will know as much about our kids as the police do and impersonations will be rife.

Police information will not be held on ContactPoint, neither will any explisite information. It will literally be the name adress and gender of the child. The parents details and their school; Contact details for any other professionals working with them, unless they are sensitive services, in which case it will simply state sensitive services. A lead professional will be stated and any communication will be through them.