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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what funding his Department allocated to ContactPoint in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what funding his Department allocated to ContactPoint in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Asked by
Sharon Hodgson
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
9 February 2011
For answer on
11 February 2011
Answered on
14 March 2011
The Department spent £67.7 million in 2008-09 on ContactPoint and £68.6 million in 2009-10. We expect total expenditure in 2010-11 to be £22.7 million.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
14 March 2011
Reference
40711; 525 c44W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for the National Signposting Service following the end of the ContactPoint database; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for the National Signposting Service following the end of the ContactPoint database; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Charlotte Leslie
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
12 January 2011
For answer on
17 January 2011
Answered on
17 January 2011
The Department for Education has been exploring the practicality of a new national signposting service in detail, together with relevant partners. I have recently written to Professor Eileen Munro, to ask her to consider this issue as part of her wider review into child protection, and she has agreed to take this on as part of her remit. I have placed a copy of the letter, which details some of the progress to date, and lays out the scope for Professor Munro to consider this issue, in the House Libraries.Professor Munro and I are agreed on the importance of avoiding the creation of any unnecessary demands on social workers and others at the front line. Any solution must be firmly focused on helping front-line professionals to spend as much time as possible helping vulnerable children and families.Professor Munro's interim report is due at the end of January and she will submit her final report to Ministers by the end of April 2011.Letter from Tim Loughton, dated 8 November 2010:"I am writing further to the meeting with key partners on 19 October to confirm next steps in relation to a possible national signposting service and the implications for your further work on your review of child protection.""We share the starting position set out in my Written Ministerial Statement of 22 July. Frontline practitioners need to be able to provide support for the most vulnerable children when they move across local authority boundaries or access services in more than one area. Experience and research have shown the potential value of a quick and reliable means of discovering whether a child or young person has been or is the subject of a child protection plan and/or whether they are or have been a looked after child or young person. Following the roundtable discussion, we agreed that it is worth considering a national approach to these issues.""We agree that any national approach must be fit for purpose, proportionate and relate to a clear need. It must also be cost effective and have benefits for the front line of child protection. This was not the case with ContactPoint. However, while recognising that ICT can never be the whole answer to improving frontline practice, it is worth considering whether ICT might play a useful role in supporting aspects of social work and the protection of children and young people—as indeed you have pointed out in your first review report. Our next steps on a possible national signposting service must therefore be taken forward in that context.""At the end of the 19 October meeting, I drew out some clear propositions which had emerged from the discussion as a starting point for further work. If a new ICT system is the solution, or part of the solution, the children in scope should be limited to: those who are looked after; those with child protection plans; and, subject to further consideration of legal issues particularly relating to consent, those who have been the subject of section 47 investigations, it is important that any database only contains details of children known to be at risk, otherwise it could fall into disrepute. Clear criteria would also need to be in place for the removal of a child's details from the database.""As you know, the Department has already explored the feasibility of a 'national signposting system'. This work has concluded that:""such a signposting service is technically feasible""among practitioners and their representatives there is no consensus over scope and purpose, but a presumption that if it goes ahead, its coverage should be tightly defined. As I have indicated, this is the presumption that I shall make""similarly there is a range of views on the practitioners who may need access, whether direct or mediated, to a signposting system""there may be scope for improvement of existing protocols and local practice, rather than, or in addition to, a new tool""uncertainty over costs makes it problematic to commit to an ICT-based project, and to judge the value as against other possible uses of the likely resource""the relationship between use of any new ICT system and professional practice is key, with a need to align with your review's recommendations on frontline practice.""Given the discussions thus far on a national signposting service, and the stage you have reached on your review, you and I have agreed an appropriate way forward. You will consider the key underlying issues, notably:""What do practitioners need to help them to quickly identify children who are the subject of protection plans or who are looked after and who come to the notice of professionals working with them or who are presented for help by parents/carers in local services outside their home areas?""Should any other categories of children be regarded as so vulnerable that practitioners need to identify them quickly, such as those who have been looked after or the subject of child protection plans in the past, or those who have been the subject of section 47 investigations?""How effective are existing measures for supporting mobile vulnerable children, and how might they be improved, including the measures, in place across police and health services?""What new or changed processes or tools, which may include ICT solutions, would help frontline practitioners?""The interactions of 'signposting' with your review, including any possible effects of a new IT system on social work practice""and in the light of that, and of the cost-effectiveness of any ICT solution, what priority should be given to development of the kind of signposting service that has been discussed?""The Department will support your consideration by gathering evidence by a variety of means, including in-depth studies in frontline settings and other forms of stakeholder engagement, and undertaking analysis. There will be no fixed assumption that ContactPoint assets should be re-used. Issues to be considered in this work will include:""a. The use of small-scale pilots with LAs and/or busy A&Es, as well as other ways of gathering information, to clarify the scale and nature of the 'problem', model current and desirable practice and potential aids and solutions.""b. Use made currently of the current Missing Children Notifications system, and how the system could be improved. To include""(i) establishing the purpose of the system, investigating current use, its strengths, and known issues""(ii) collecting feedback from local practitioners and understanding what works/potential barriers""(iii) analysing evidence""(iv) drawing conclusions on how the system could be improved""c. Use made currently of police databases; potential for further use of these systems and the new Police National Database.""d. And specifically in case an IT solution looks desirable""(i) The nature of any such solution that would offer best value for money""(ii) which professionals should have access, directly or indirectly, and how likely are they to use it and find it useful""(iii) what data should be included, including possible inclusion of school and GP registration data as an aid to signposting""(iv) archiving and exit criteria for data in any IT system""(v) the cost profile and affordability, embodying realistic assumptions about development and operational costs and the implementation date.""I should be grateful if you would participate at the appropriate level in the governance arrangements for this work, together with Sue White and officials who support your review. The Department will not start to develop any detailed documentation required for any ICT project until after a decision is taken to proceed.""I look forward to seeing an update on progress in your January report and a final recommendation in your April report."Letter from Professor Eileen Munro:"Thank you for your letter dated 8 November confirming the next steps we agreed in consideration of a national signposting service for children known to be at risk. I am happy to incorporate this issue and its implications into my review of child protection in England and welcome your offer of support in gathering evidence to inform my recommendations.""I concur with your view that a national approach to signposting, including any potential case for an ICT-based service, should be shaped by what practitioners need to help them carry out their work to protect children. As you have highlighted, it will be important to give very careful consideration to the criteria for including children on the system and for removing their names. As you have suggested, I will work with Professor Sue White, other members of my reference group and officials working on the review, to consider what practice tools or systems are already in place which could be built upon to meet practitioners' identified needs rather than creating an unnecessary additional system. It goes without saying that the cost-effectiveness of any recommendations will be central to my thinking, particularly with regard to the wider issue my review is addressing of unnecessary bureaucratic demands on social work time.""I would ask in addition that you consider preserving some funding for the national signposting work, in order that any recommendations I am minded to make are, if necessary, supported by available resource.""As you request, I will update you on my progress in January and seek to provide you with a final recommendation in my April report."
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
17 January 2011
Reference
34126; 521 c591-3W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what function the reformed ContactPoint database will have in respect of vulnerable children which is not undertaken by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that only details of children already identified as...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what function the reformed ContactPoint database will have in respect of vulnerable children which is not undertaken by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that only details of children already identified as...
Asked by
David Davis
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
26 October 2010
For answer on
1 November 2010
Answered on
9 November 2010
[holding answer 1 November 2010]: In line with our longstanding policy commitment, ContactPoint was switched off on 6 August 2010. The database is in the process of being permanently decommissioned and the data securely destroyed. Accordingly, the ContactPoint database is not being reformed. We are however exploring the feasibility of an alternative approach to help key professionals support and protect our most vulnerable children, particularly when these children move areas or access services in more than one area. Wherever practicable, we will seek to re-use investment made to date. We will provide an update in due course.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
9 November 2010
Reference
20900; 518 c267W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the savings to be accrued in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Dudley borough as a result of ending the ContactPoint database in each of the next five financial years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the savings to be accrued in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Dudley borough as a result of ending the ContactPoint database in each of the next five financial years.
Asked by
Lord Austin of Dudley
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 July 2010
For answer on
12 July 2010
Answered on
4 October 2010
On 22 July I made a written ministerial statement informing Parliament that ContactPoint would be shut down on 6 August. The Department also wrote to local authorities on the same day informing them that grant funding would continue until the end of August to cover the costs of decommissioning ContactPoint.As from 1 September the Department will save the cost of grant payments to the West Midlands and Dudley borough for the remainder of 2010-11 and in the years thereafter. The response I gave to the hon. Member on 19 July 2010, Official Report, column 97W, gives details of these grant payments. The Department does not have details of any further savings that might accrue locally to the West Midlands and Dudley borough as a result of closing ContactPoint.Closing down ContactPoint is not about saving money, it is about finding the most proportionate and effective way to help frontline practitioners to protect vulnerable children. We have never believed that such a large database, accessible to hundreds of thousands of people, is the most appropriate way to help vulnerable children.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
4 October 2010
Reference
8403; 515 c1278W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether the Government plans to replace ContactPoint.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether the Government plans to replace ContactPoint.
Asked by
Jake Berry
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
21 July 2010
For answer on
26 July 2010
Answered on
16 September 2010
I refer the hon. Member to my written statement issued on 22 July 2010, Official Report, columns 30-31WS.We are exploring the practicality of an alternative national signposting service which would help practitioners find out whether a colleague elsewhere is working, or has previously worked, with the same vulnerable child. The approach would particularly take account of the needs of children who move between local authority areas or who access services in more than one local authority. Social workers in particular, and potentially other key services like the police or accident and emergency departments, may need this information very quickly and any new approach would seek to strengthen communication between these areas.Critical to the success of any new service must be that it provides a modern, effective tool that supports the frontline and supports the broader aims of Eileen Munro's review to improve child protection and social work practice. It is also important that we keep the information held on any new service to the minimum necessary to allow effective identification of the individuals involved. We would also seek to keep development and implementation costs to a minimum and deliver a service that can demonstrate greater value for money than ContactPoint. We will continue to draw on the views, experience and expertise of frontline staff and managers to assess the feasibility and affordability of such an approach.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
16 September 2010
Reference
11460; 515 c1167-8W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on the ContactPoint scheme in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Dudley borough and (c) Dudley North constituency in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on the ContactPoint scheme in (a) the West Midlands, (b) Dudley borough and (c) Dudley North constituency in (i) 2009 and (ii) 2010.
Asked by
Lord Austin of Dudley
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 July 2010
For answer on
12 July 2010
Answered on
21 July 2010
The Department for Education has provided grant funding to local authorities and national partners to support the local implementation of ContactPoint. £2,621,000 was paid to the 14 children's services authorities in the west midlands in the 2009-10 financial year. Grant payments made to these authorities between 1 April and 30 June 2010 (inclusive) were £377,555.75. Within these totals, the amounts paid to Dudley metropolitan borough council were £170,000 in 2009-10, and £23,747.75 for 1 April to 30 June 2010.Figures are not available for spending broken down by parliamentary constituency.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
21 July 2010
Reference
8201; 514 c441W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has received from local authorities in the West Midlands on the decision to end the ContactPoint database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has received from local authorities in the West Midlands on the decision to end the ContactPoint database.
Asked by
Lord Austin of Dudley
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 July 2010
For answer on
12 July 2010
Answered on
21 July 2010
We have confirmed with local authorities and other partners our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as is practicable. Both coalition partners' manifestos included a clear commitment to scrap ContactPoint, to fulfil a longstanding policy commitment, discussed with a wide range of interested organisations in recent years. We have consistently opposed a database, which contains details about all children in England, accessed by hundreds of thousands of people and we signalled our opposition in debates on the original legislation in the 2004 Children Act.The Department for Education has received no representations from local authorities in the west midlands on this decision. We will continue to engage with and draw on the views with a wide range of organisations as we consider the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting children most in need.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
21 July 2010
Reference
8200; 514 c440-1W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on first quarter grant payments to each local authority in the West Midlands in respect of the ContactPoint database in June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on first quarter grant payments to each local authority in the West Midlands in respect of the ContactPoint database in June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Lord Austin of Dudley
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 July 2010
For answer on
12 July 2010
Answered on
19 July 2010
The Department for Education has provided grant funding to local authorities and national partners to support the local implementation of ContactPoint. The following amounts were made in grant payments to the 14 children's services authorities in the West Midlands in the first quarter of the 2010-11 financial year.
| £ | |
| Birmingham City Council | 54,887.75 |
| Coventry City Council | 24,005.50 |
| Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | 23,747.75 |
| Herefordshire County Council | 18,788.00 |
| Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | 23,830.00 |
| Shropshire County Council | 22,727.00 |
| Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council | 20,246.25 |
| Staffordshire County Council | 41,518.25 |
| Stoke-on-Trent Council | 20,898.50 |
| Telford and the Wrekin Council | 19,135.50 |
| Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | 22,574.25 |
| Warwickshire County Council | 31,429.00 |
| Wolverhampton City Council | 21,429.25 |
| Worcestershire County Council | 32,338.75 |
| Total | 377,555.75 |
Subjects
Children; Databases; West Midlands
Date
19 July 2010
Reference
8404; 514 c97W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education From what (a) local and (b) national data sources information was collected for the ContactPoint database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education From what (a) local and (b) national data sources information was collected for the ContactPoint database.
Asked by
Andrew Turner
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
6 July 2010
For answer on
12 July 2010
Answered on
12 July 2010
The basic information on ContactPoint was drawn from a number of national sources, including the General Register Office, the Department for Education's Schools Census, the child benefit database and the NHS Personal Demographics Service. In addition local authorities and national partners had begun to add information from a range of local sources, including social care systems.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
12 July 2010
Reference
6957; 513 c560W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will place in the Library a copy of each representation he has received from (a) local authorities and (b) children's organisations on his Department's decision to end the ContactPoint database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will place in the Library a copy of each representation he has received from (a) local authorities and (b) children's organisations on his Department's decision to end the ContactPoint database.
Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 June 2010
For answer on
10 June 2010
Answered on
12 July 2010
We have confirmed with local authorities and other partners our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as is practicable. Both coalition partners' manifestos included a clear commitment to scrap ContactPoint, to fulfil a longstanding policy commitment, discussed with a wide range of interested organisations in recent years. We have consistently opposed a database, which contains details about all children in England, accessed by hundreds of thousands of people and we signalled our opposition in debates on the original legislation in the 2004 Children Act.The Department has received no representations from local authorities or children's organisations on this Government's decision. We will however continue to engage with and draw on the views of a wide range of organisations as we consider the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting children most in need.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
12 July 2010
Reference
1938; 513 c563-4W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on first quarter grant payments to local authorities in respect of the ContactPoint database in June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on first quarter grant payments to local authorities in respect of the ContactPoint database in June 2010; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 June 2010
For answer on
10 June 2010
Answered on
12 July 2010
We have confirmed with local authorities and other partners our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as is practicable. Both coalition partners' manifestos included a clear commitment to scrap ContactPoint, to fulfil a longstanding policy commitment. We are considering the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting children most in need.In the interim, while ContactPoint remains in limited operation, my Department has provided guidance on what local authorities and partners should do to ensure the safe and legal operation. The Department has paid local authorities £3.75 million to cover costs of operating ContactPoint during the period April to June 2010. We are considering the extent of grant funding beyond this period, and more detailed plans on the way forward will be announced later in the summer.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
12 July 2010
Reference
1939; 513 c564W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent discussions he and his Ministerial colleagues have had with (a) local authorities and (b) other stakeholders on the future of ContactPoint.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what recent discussions he and his Ministerial colleagues have had with (a) local authorities and (b) other stakeholders on the future of ContactPoint.
Asked by
Ed Balls
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
2 June 2010
For answer on
7 June 2010
Answered on
22 June 2010
We have confirmed with local authorities and other partners our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as practicable. Both coalition partners' manifestos included a clear commitment to scrap ContactPoint, to fulfil a longstanding policy commitment, discussed with a wide range of interested organisations in recent years. We have consistently opposed a database, which contains details about all children in England, accessed by hundreds of thousands of people and signalled our opposition in debates on the original legislation in the 2004 Children Act.We will consider the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting children most in need and will continue to engage our partners as we take the work forward.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
22 June 2010
Reference
1219; 512 c201W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the savings to be made as a result of his Department's decision to end the ContactPoint database in each of the next five financial years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the savings to be made as a result of his Department's decision to end the ContactPoint database in each of the next five financial years.
Asked by
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest
(Labour)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
8 June 2010
For answer on
10 June 2010
Answered on
22 June 2010
We have made clear our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as practicable. As we do so, we intend to consider the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting the most vulnerable children. We shall make a further announcement shortly. The impact on the Department's existing expenditure plans will be determined in the light of those decisions.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
22 June 2010
Reference
1940; 512 c202W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment his Department has made on the effects on practitioner time expended per child of the introduction of the Contact Point database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment his Department has made on the effects on practitioner time expended per child of the introduction of the Contact Point database.
Asked by
Ed Balls
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
2 June 2010
For answer on
7 June 2010
Answered on
16 June 2010
The Department has made no assessment of the effect of introducing ContactPoint on practitioner time spent on each child.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
16 June 2010
Reference
1220; 511 c485W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children in each local education authority (a) are and (b) are not recorded on the ContactPoint database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children in each local education authority (a) are and (b) are not recorded on the ContactPoint database.
Asked by
Andrew Turner
(Conservative)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
9 June 2010
For answer on
14 June 2010
Answered on
15 June 2010
[holding answer 14 June 2010]: ContactPoint was designed to hold basic information on every child in England, by gathering data from a range of national and local data sources. The system is not set up to run reports on numbers of children in each local authority.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
15 June 2010
Reference
2208; 511 c395W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the effects on his Department's expenditure in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 of the immediate abolition of the ContactPoint database.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of the effects on his Department's expenditure in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 of the immediate abolition of the ContactPoint database.
Asked by
Ed Balls
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
2 June 2010
For answer on
7 June 2010
Answered on
10 June 2010
We have made clear our firm intention to end the ContactPoint database as soon as practicable. As we do so, we intend to consider the scope for a more proportionate approach to protecting children most in need. We shall make a further announcement in due course. The impact on the Department's existing expenditure plans will be determined in the light of those decisions.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
10 June 2010
Reference
1221; 511 c240W
House
House of Commons
I congratulate the hon. Lady on her election. Very soon she will hear further details of the demise of ContactPoint, which was not championed by a great many professionals at the front end, who knew that the bureaucracy added to safeguarding over recent years has contributed to some of the dangers to our children, so we would like to replace it with a much better system. She will hear more details shortly.
I congratulate the hon. Lady on her election. Very soon she will hear further details of the demise of ContactPoint, which was not championed by a great many professionals at the front end, who knew that the bureaucracy added to safeguarding over recent years has contributed to some of the dangers to our children, so we would like to replace it with a much better system. She will hear more details shortly.
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Asked by
Baroness Berger
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Education
Type
Oral answers to questions
The ContactPoint database that was championed by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Barnardo's is to be scrapped. What assessment has been made of the impact that the removal will have on safeguarding children?
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
7 June 2010
Reference
511 c18
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Asked by
Baroness Berger
(Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answered by
Tim Loughton
(Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Education
Topical questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Answered on
7 June 2010
Notes
Lead question not printed.
Subjects
Children; Databases
Date
7 June 2010
Reference
829; 511 c18
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Childcare Bill. Report stage and Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Passed.
Childcare Bill. Report stage and Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Passed.
Lead member
Baroness Hughes of Stretford
Answering member
Tim Loughton
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Debates on bills
Legislative stage
Third reading; Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Legislation
Childcare Bill 2005-06
Subjects
Access; Data protection; Databases; Childcare; Curriculum; Disadvantaged; Childminding; Equality; Health; Disqualification; Information; Local government; Low incomes; Powers of entry; Protection; Parents; Police; Pre-school education; Poverty; Local government services; Police cautions; Registration; Standards; Vetting; Schools; Sexual offences
Date
9 March 2006
Reference
443 c971-1038
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Children Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third reading and other proceedings. Agreed to on division (241 to 72). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Children Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third reading and other proceedings. Agreed to on division (241 to 72). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Lead member
Baroness Hodge of Barking
Answering member
Tim Loughton
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Type
Debates on bills
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions; Money resolutions
Legislation
Children Bill (HL) 2003/04
Subjects
Children; Data protection; Databases; Children in care; Asylum; Corporal punishment; Children's rights; Custodial treatment; Children's Commissioner for Wales; Children's Commissioner for England; Custody; Foster care; Education; Inspections; Domestic abuse; Information; Local government; Protection; Parents; Offences against children; Registration; Young people; Young offenders; Wales; Separation; Social services; Local safeguarding children boards
Date
13 September 2004
Reference
424 c1000-88
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons