In all the coverage of the dreadful 'Child P' case and the arguing in parliament, I have not yet heard a single mention of Labour's system to 'stop this ever happening again'. Otherwise known as Contactpoint, which is due to be in place by the end of 2008.
It strikes me as odd that Labour have not trumpeted this is as their big new answer, having spent years dreaming it up and spending vast amounts of money on it.
Conjured up after the Victoria Climbie case, it bears all the marks of New Labour: it's a technological response to human and system failure; it's also intrusive, authoritarian, unethical and open to misuse. And it will prove inefficient and expensive.
If anyone has heard mention of this in the media I would be grateful for information. They seem to be ignorant of its existence or unwilling to mention it - or confront the government with it.
Thursday 13 November 2008
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