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Scrapping of ContactPoint database begins

...The Department for Education deleted the logins for the ContactPoint database at noon on Friday, ahead of the deletion of the entire... Read more

6 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Government spends £3.75m on ContactPoint

...spent £3.75m over two months on the soon to be scrapped ContactPoint children's database. Conservative education minister Tim Loughton said that because ContactPoint... Read more

14 July, 2010 by Kable

Government defers ContactPoint database cancellation

...The Department for Education has said it will temporarily maintain ContactPoint, the controversial children's database, but scale back its use. Tom Jeffery... Read more

21 June, 2010 by Kable

Spending cuts: 400 government IT projects under the microscope

...the change in government have been the ID cards project and the ContactPoint child protection database. The coalition is in the middle of a cull... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Nick Heath

ContactPoint database to cost £227m

...The Department for Children, Schools and Families has budgeted £41m annually for ContactPoint's operating expenses. However, Primarolo said it will save more than double... Read more

11 December, 2009 by Kable

Security flaws halt work on child-protection database

...that have halted work on a database to protect children. The £224m ContactPoint database contains the name, address, gender, date of birth and a unique... Read more

25 March, 2009 by Nick Heath

All police employees to get ContactPoint access

...a list of the job positions that will have access to the ContactPoint system on Wednesday, in a written parliamentary answer to Keith Vaz, the... Read more

10 November, 2008 by Kable

Tories and Lib Dems form coalition government

...their manifestos that they would scrap the ID cards scheme and the ContactPoint database. The Intercept Modernisation Programme, a Labour plan to intercept and record... Read more

12 May, 2010 by David Meyer

Tories pledge to end the database state

...Register, which is the basis of the ID card scheme, and the ContactPoint database of information on children. Tighten rules around the use of the... Read more

16 September, 2009 by Simon Bisson

Conservatives plan to ditch ContactPoint database

...system if his party forms a government. Gove told the newspaper that ContactPoint would "increase the risk" of abuse of vulnerable children. "The government has... Read more

30 September, 2008 by Kable
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...location? And are any places nearby that you've been to before? ContactPoint shows all this and more, utilising the power of the iPhone's... Read more

16 February, 2010

Photos: The Tories' techiest MPs

...as the National Identity Register (NIR), the ID cards central database, and ContactPoint. Davis has also recently criticised the Conservative proposals to let NHS patients... Read more

16 December, 2009 by Nick Heath

ID card cancellation to kick off parliamentary debate

...and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, would shut down children's database ContactPoint, reduce the extent of the National DNA Database in England and Wales... Read more

24 May, 2010 by Kable

ID card contract cancellation could be costly

...government's plans to scrap the National Identity Scheme, biometric passports and ContactPoint could be expensive if they involve prematurely cancelling contracts. Vendors including IBM... Read more

14 May, 2010 by Kable

Cameron and Clegg to renew 'eroded' civil liberties

...published agreement confirms that identity cards, the National Identity Register and the ContactPoint directory of children will be abolished, as previously stated in both parties... Read more

13 May, 2010 by Kable

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