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Personal details of eight million children are on secret database without their parents’ knowledge

Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:33
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  • The database contains information such as  the child’s age, sex and academic and behavioural records
  • Capita’s One system can potentially share  the information to external agencies such as social services and youth offending  teams
  • The majority of parents are unaware that the  information is being gathered or how it is used

A huge ‘Big Brother’ style database  containing details of around eight million schoolchildren is being compiled  without the knowledge of their parents.

IT systems specialists are creating the  database – including such information as a child’s age, sex, and academic  records – which can be shared among officials from other agencies such as the  police, NHS and charities.

Teachers are uploading information on pupils  as often as six times a day to the database, created by Capita, one of the UK’s  largest contractors to both central and local government.

The database is said to be already being used  by as many as 100 local authorities, according to The Sunday Times, with 22,000  schools nationwide uploading to the service to provide a ‘thread’ of data that  is accessible to all those working with children.

It is thought that youth offending teams,  which include police officers, will also be offered access to the  information.

As well as basic details such as the child’s  address and attendance records, information about special needs and behavioural  records are also included.

Capita hires photographers to take pictures  of schoolchildren, which are offered for sale to parents before being uploaded  onto the database – known as the One system – to accompany the information  compiled.

The majority of parents are not informed that  the data is being gathered and can be held on file indefinitely.

Director of civil liberties and privacy  campaign group Big Brother Watch, Nick Pickles, said: ‘Parents will be shocked  that they are being kept in the dark about how their child’s information is  being gathered and exactly what it is used for.’

Read More: dailymail.co.uk

2012-11-15 11:21:08

Source: http://www.oneworldchronicle.com/?p=8034



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