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Posted on 12/06/2008 3:11:14 PM PST by BGHater
When police raided Tory MP Damian Green’s home, they ‘sheepishly’ asked whether children were present before ransacking it. His wife assumed they were being polite. But, under sinister new guidelines, officers must assess all children they encounter – including while ‘searching premises’ – for a police database called MERLIN.
This, in turn, feeds into a giant new Whitehall database on Britain’s children, Contact Point, which goes live nationally in January.
The Tories have vowed to scrap it, arguing that it threatens family privacy and children’s safety. But civil liberties campaigners say we must resist it now, before it is too late.
Since April 1, hundreds of thousands of State employees, from police to teachers, youth and nursery workers, social workers and sports coaches, have been entitled to interrogate children aged up to 19, using the ‘Common Assessment Framework’ (CAF), a creepy, eight-page, 60-section questionnaire.
CAF includes eyewateringly intimate questions about children’s sexual behaviour, their family’s structure, culture and religion, their views on ‘discrimination’, their friends, secret fears, feelings and family income, plus ‘any serious difficulties in their parents’ relationship’.
How has such a terrifying intrusion into private life crept, almost unnoticed, under the radar? The answer is New Labour has cleverly packaged CAF as an aid to ‘child protection’ and delivering better services as part of its Every Child Matters project (ECM).
The £224million programme has been beset by delays, incomprehensible acronyms and New Labour gobbledegook. But let us not be deceived – it is about control, not care, and spying, not safety.
ECM claims that nearly half of Britain’s 11million children have ‘additional needs’, so must continuously be assessed for the giant database at the Government’s Department for Schools and Families.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Correct Title:
'Has your child been CAFed? How the Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain'
Unbelievable.
Is it right about now that I should be praising God that we didn’t have children? Always made me sad, until lately.
Now I’m concerned about nieces & nephews, but won’t have to stress over our own.
Coming soon to a country near you!
Besides normal ID stuff (name, address, race, religion, blah blah blah), the interesting bits - under "Health" - are:
Emotional and social development
Feeling special; early attachments; risking/actual self-harm; phobias; psychological difficulties; coping with stress; motivation, positive attitudes; confidence; relationships with peers; feeling isolated and solitary; fears; often unhappy
Behavioural development
Lifestyle, self-control, reckless or impulsive activity; behaviour with peers; substance misuse; anti-social behaviour; sexual behaviour; offending; violence and aggression; restless and overactive; easily distracted, attention span/concentration
Identity, self-esteem, self-image and social presentation
Perceptions of self; knowledge of personal/family history; sense of belonging; experiences of discrimination due to race, religion, age, gender, sexuality and disability
Family and social relationships
Building stable relationships with family, peers and wider community; helping others; friendships; levels of association for negative relationships
Self-care skills and independence
Becoming independent; boundaries, rules, asking for help, decision-making; changes to body; washing, dressing, feeding; positive separation from family
The form says:
You do not need to comment on every element. Wherever possible, base comments on evidence, not just opinion, and indicate what your evidence is. However, if there are any major differences of view, these should be recorded too.
I'm sure once something is recorded, it'll never leave the system. And an omission may cause problems. (Not basing this on anything, except the standard operating procedure of governments across the globe. ;))
Orwell was right.
We are living in a long nightmare.
This is only one facet of a rising world order that will make Nazi Germany look like Disney World in comparison.
My thoughts exactly. I have no children and never intend to because I don’t want them to be brutally destroyed by an increasingly more insidious environment. I have a niece or nephew (too soon to tell) on the way. The world that this little one will inherit will be so horrible, so nightmarishly dangerous that I don’t know how I’m going to protect him/her. It’s better for a beautiful little child to not ever be conceived than to be savagely destroyed by the socialists.
Do NOT base your choice to not have children on what you observe around you receive from media reports. As in all liberties, the point is to recognize the blessing and defend it - NOT to abandon your biological, no, God-given privilege and treasure. We NEED a generation of patriots and intelligent citizens to oppose tyranny in the coming age. Nothing could be more important to civilization, history or sustaining what we love about America and God's creation.
Gird your loins.
How odd. Nowhere on the form did I see any place to write, “get stuffed, ye loon!”
Maybe we should join the Greenies, and make sure all the lights go out...and computers OFF, so these busies need to write with charcoal on tree bark.
Might slow them down.
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