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All police employees to get ContactPoint access

Kablenet.com

Published: 10 Nov 2008 11:26 GMT

Every employee of England's police forces, as well as many teachers, will have access to the system containing information on all children in England.

Beverley Hughes, the children's minister, released a list of the job positions that will have access to the ContactPoint system on Wednesday, in a written parliamentary answer to Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs select committee.

As well as all police officers and staff covering a geographic area, the system will be available to healthcare professionals and their assistants; officers of local probation boards and youth offending teams; heads, officers and administrators at prisons and secure training centres; and all social-care workers.

Access to ContactPoint will also be available to school headteachers, deputy heads, heads of year, other teachers with pastoral or child-protection responsibilities, special-needs teachers and co-ordinators, as well as holders of similar posts at further-education and higher-education establishments.

Access will also be given to five charities, including Barnardo's and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, as well as employees of fire and rescue authorities working on strategies for children and young people.