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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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17 March 2009

Laming – review IT for children’s services

The government must look at rolling out a single national IT system for children’s services because local IT systems are
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26 January 2009

ContactPoint goes live

The government has launched its national children’s database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country
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1 September 2008

ContactPoint delayed for further testing

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme
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27 August 2008

Police to get access to national child database

Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal
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25 February 2008

Children’s database work resumes after review

Ministers are to press ahead with plans to develop the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, despite an independent security review identifying
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28 November 2007

Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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10 September 2007

Initiate to help deliver national child database

Capgemini UK has selected Initiate Systems Inc to provide the foundational linking and matching technology for the UK national children’s
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18 July 2007

Capgemini wins ContactPoint child database contract

Capgemini has been awarded a £40m contract by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to build and host
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