Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has suggested Labour may reinstate a national database of children, similar to the ContactPoint system scrapped in 2010. Cooper argued that a centralized system for sharing information between police, social services, and other agencies would be beneficial for identifying and addressing threats posed by dangerous individuals, citing the Southport killer as an example. ContactPoint, introduced by Ed Balls in 2009, faced criticism for its intrusiveness and security concerns before its eventual abolition.
LISTEN:Yvette Cooper has raised the prospect of Labour resurrecting a database of every child in the country.
The £225million system held records of all 11million children in England including their names, ages, addresses, parents and schools, giving each one a unique identifying number. It could be accessed by 300,000 officials. But she did not mention it had been introduced by her husband Ed Balls, in 2009 when he was Children's Secretary, or that it suffered a series of security problems and been branded intrusive and disproportionate.
'So, for some cases, actually it might need to be mental health that need to take the lead on an individual case.
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