As the Bill received its second reading last week and was debated in the House of Lords, the charity Barnardo's said the proposal to create a database of information on vulnerable children had not been thought through. It added, 'There is no threshold for the kind of concerns which should be recorded, nor is it clear who should have responsibility to take action when a number of concerns are registered.'
Under the Bill's proposals, professionals from health, education and social services are able to enter data about children, and concerns will be flagged, but they will not be able to see information entered by others on the database.
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