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Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) (Revocation) Regulations 2012

My Lords, I very much support the abolition of ContactPoint. Setting up a monumental database to cover every child in the country was a terrible waste of money. It had a danger of setting up a tick-box mentality, and there were safeguarding issues because it was quite widely accessible. We had to set up all kinds of safeguards for the people who had access to it. At least some of the savings should be spent on better training for professionals in the children's workforce in how to work effectively with other professionals in the children's workforce. That would be a far better way to spend the money, so I very much support the regulations.