Do we not understand the importance of privacy any more. We need to guard it (especially now) because lack of privacy welcomes discrimination. Eventually judgments will be passed on those things that will make you different from others. When this kind of information is given up to government or authorities eventually pressure to be within the parameters of acceptable will come along.
*Check out the links at the bottom to see the trend*
Big Brother quiz for new school parents: Officials launch 83-point probe into families’ lives
Daily Mail
18.11.2009
By Steve Doughty
Parents of five-year-olds starting school have been sent an 83-point questionnaire that probes personal details of their lives.
It asks whether their children tell lies or bully others, and if they steal at home or from shops.
Parents are questioned over whether they have friends, if they can speak freely with others in their family and how well they did at school themselves.
The form also delves into family routines, questioning whether they eat takeaways and if the children drink water with their meals.
Thousands of families in Lincolnshire were sent the forms as part of trials of a ‘Healthy Child Programme’ being developed in Whitehall.
The Department of Health wants all families in England and Wales to fill in similar forms.
The information will be held indefinitely on NHS databases for the use of health workers. Planners want new forms submitted each year to build up a detailed picture of the family and their children’s development.
Children themselves will fill in questionnaires when they become old enough.
The aim is to ‘enhance children’s life chances’ but critics warned of unprecedented intrusion into family life and the growth of a major new state database.
Parents have been told the information is ‘confidential’ but it will be available to health workers who will decide whether families should be approached by health visitors offering ’support’.
It will also be used to identify districts with widespread health and social problems so officials can plan and target health campaigns.
There is no legal compulsion to fill in the School Entry Wellbeing Review forms, but parents who do not are likely to be visited by community nurses charged with identifying vulnerable families.
Dylan Sharpe of the Big Brother Watch pressure group said: ‘This is incredibly intrusive and asks questions which, quite frankly, Lincolnshire Community Health Services do not need to know and have no right knowing.
‘Even worse, the NHS Trust has failed to make it clear that this is a voluntary questionnaire. I would advise any parent receiving this to stick it straight in the bin.’
Jill Kirby of the centre-right think tank Centre for Policy Studies said: ‘This is badly wrong for a number of reasons.
‘Parents are not told how the information will be used, nor that they can refuse to give it and it will create worry and suspicion among many families.
Full article
Related:
Beware of the lurking eyes of the social services *
Homes could be invaded by health and safety inspectors checking that parents are keeping their children safe *
The rights of families are being destroyed by the Government
Times: Question a doctor and lose your child - side effect don’t exist any more *
Nurse sacked and accused of abuse for smacking her son at home
Telegraph: ‘Evil destruction’ of a happy family*
24 hour cctv surveillance of so-called Shameless families*
Obama resurrects the not so nice UN’s ‘rights’ of the child *
Why do my son’s books tell him all men are useless? *
Millions Of British Children Asked Intimate Questions For Dangerous Psychological Database *
Constant Conflict - Source: U.S. Military - Attack On Human Culture *
Nothing To Hide - Part 1 - Privacy Protects From Tyranny *
The Scientific Outlook - Part 7 - Freedom and Equality in a Scientific Society
Impact of Science on Society - Part 4 - Mass Psychology and Education
18.11.2009
By Steve Doughty
Parents of five-year-olds starting school have been sent an 83-point questionnaire that probes personal details of their lives.It asks whether their children tell lies or bully others, and if they steal at home or from shops.
Parents are questioned over whether they have friends, if they can speak freely with others in their family and how well they did at school themselves.
The form also delves into family routines, questioning whether they eat takeaways and if the children drink water with their meals.
Thousands of families in Lincolnshire were sent the forms as part of trials of a ‘Healthy Child Programme’ being developed in Whitehall.
The Department of Health wants all families in England and Wales to fill in similar forms.
The information will be held indefinitely on NHS databases for the use of health workers. Planners want new forms submitted each year to build up a detailed picture of the family and their children’s development.
Children themselves will fill in questionnaires when they become old enough.
The aim is to ‘enhance children’s life chances’ but critics warned of unprecedented intrusion into family life and the growth of a major new state database.
Parents have been told the information is ‘confidential’ but it will be available to health workers who will decide whether families should be approached by health visitors offering ’support’.
It will also be used to identify districts with widespread health and social problems so officials can plan and target health campaigns.
There is no legal compulsion to fill in the School Entry Wellbeing Review forms, but parents who do not are likely to be visited by community nurses charged with identifying vulnerable families.
Dylan Sharpe of the Big Brother Watch pressure group said: ‘This is incredibly intrusive and asks questions which, quite frankly, Lincolnshire Community Health Services do not need to know and have no right knowing.
‘Even worse, the NHS Trust has failed to make it clear that this is a voluntary questionnaire. I would advise any parent receiving this to stick it straight in the bin.’
Jill Kirby of the centre-right think tank Centre for Policy Studies said: ‘This is badly wrong for a number of reasons.
‘Parents are not told how the information will be used, nor that they can refuse to give it and it will create worry and suspicion among many families.
Full article
Related:
Beware of the lurking eyes of the social services *
Homes could be invaded by health and safety inspectors checking that parents are keeping their children safe *
The rights of families are being destroyed by the Government
Times: Question a doctor and lose your child - side effect don’t exist any more *
Nurse sacked and accused of abuse for smacking her son at home
Telegraph: ‘Evil destruction’ of a happy family*
24 hour cctv surveillance of so-called Shameless families*
Obama resurrects the not so nice UN’s ‘rights’ of the child *
Why do my son’s books tell him all men are useless? *
Millions Of British Children Asked Intimate Questions For Dangerous Psychological Database *
Constant Conflict - Source: U.S. Military - Attack On Human Culture *
Nothing To Hide - Part 1 - Privacy Protects From Tyranny *
The Scientific Outlook - Part 7 - Freedom and Equality in a Scientific Society
Impact of Science on Society - Part 4 - Mass Psychology and Education
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