Quelques
"rubriques", parmi beaucoup d'autres, toujours d'actualité
:
les rapports
parents-profs, la maternelle
à 2 ans, l'ennui
à l'école, les punitions
collectives, le téléphone
portable,
l'état des
toilettes,
le créationnisme...
LES "MODÈLES"
ANGLO-SAXONS :
(libertés, justice,
santé, système scolaire, éducatif, marché de
l'éducation, homeschooling...aux USA et en Angleterre)
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Le "modèle"
anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste...
Beuark.
AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... |
La
totalité des "enfants" (mineurs de 18 ans) est désormais
fichée en Grande Bretagne.
d'après BBC News et The Times - 26 janvier 2009
Nom, prénom, date de naissance, école, médecin traitant et autres renseignements concernant leurs familles, de onze millions d'enfants anglais alimentent une base de données (ContactPoint) à la disposition de près de 400.000 personnes (gouvernement, municipalités, services sociaux et diverses associations de "protection" contre les maltraitances). Décidé suite à un fait divers tragique (en 2000, la mort d'un enfant de huit ans, pourtant "suivi" par de multiples services... n'échangeant pas leurs informations), puis testé dans onze localités du nord-est du pays, ce système - extrêmement coûteux - est censé permettre une meilleure coordination entre les multiples services de protection de l'enfance. De nombreuses voix s'èlèvent contre cette nouvelle avancée
d'une "société
de surveillance" :
... Et, peut-être, par infiniment plus ?
Five million child benefit records,
Et c'est Michael Gove, responsable de l'éducation du parti conservateur
qui s'insurge : "Ce fichier ne va pas du tout améliorer la protection
des enfants, mais, avec tous les risques de fuite, augmenter les risques
d'abus sur des enfants vulnérables, créer plus de bureaucratie
autour d'informations sensibles et accessibles par des centaines de milliers
de personnes.
unencrypted data sticks containing details of 84,000 prisoners and information on three million learner drivers have all disappeared in the past two years. Nous avons besoin d'investir dans du personnel, pas dans des systèmes Big Brother.» Ross Anderson, professeur de sécurité informatique à l'université de Cambridge, craint lui aussi le pire : «le mot de passe d'accès à ContactPoint risque de se retrouver sur un post-it jaune collé à l'ordinateur de la réceptionniste, à la vue de tous.» Le gouvernement ("travailliste") projette également pour cette
année le fichage de onze millions d'adultes (le 1/4 de la population
majeure) travaillant dans les secteurs de l'enfance.
390,000 to access child database The government is also planning a register of one in four adults A child protection database containing the contact details for all under 18-year-olds in England will be accessible to 390,000 staff, say ministers. The ContactPoint database is intended to improve information sharing between professionals working with children. Children's Minister Baroness Morgan said parents would not be allowed to remove their children from the list. The Conservatives attacked the £224m database as "another expensive data disaster waiting to happen". The Liberal Democrats have also previously opposed what they called an "intrusive and expensive project". 'Jigsaw' Children's Minister in the House of Commons, Beverley Hughes, said the database would allow people working with children to "put their particular piece of the jigsaw into the whole picture". The database was created as a result of the inquiry that followed the death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbie in 2000. But it has experienced a series of technical delays. The latest stage of the project is that 17 local authorities will begin training staff in how to use the database, which will hold the name, address, parents' contact details, date of birth, school and doctor of every child in England. Each child will also have a unique identifying number. The setting up of the database is intended to improve the co-ordination between different professionals working with children. For instance, it will allow education authorities to know if a child has come to the attention of social services or health workers. Among those who will be able to see the information will be local authorities, police, health services and children's charities. Adult register But Baroness Morgan says that there will be provision for "shielding" the details of young people facing risk if they were identified. "For someone fleeing domestic violence for example it is important we make sure the ContactPoint directory can shield in some way," she said. The Conservatives' children's spokesman, Tim Loughton, challenged the value of such a database. "Which do you think is more likely to protect vulnerable children - investing in more permanent and appropriately trained social workers and reducing their caseload or instead throwing money at another expensive data disaster waiting to happen?" The government is also planning to set up another major child protection register for adults who work with young people. The Independent
Safeguarding Authority, set to begin work later this year, plans to
have a register of more than 11 million adults - representing about one
in four of the adult population of England.
Alarm over security of children's database Parents, security experts and opposition parties have voiced alarm that 400,000 people are to be given access to a new national database containing details of all 11 million children living in England. ContactPoint, which has so far cost £224 million, will hold the name, address, date of birth, parents' details, GP and name of school of all English children aged under 18. Any child receiving help with special educational needs, who has been in contact with social workers or seen a youth worker, will also have a special entry against their name. But the admission from Government that so many different individuals would have access to such sensitive data sparked renewed panic that the information would not be safe.
Ministers defended the decision to let so many people see the database, saying that all those who worked with children needed access if it was to work. All users would have an ID, a password, a random digital code or access token and a PIN. Margaret Morrissey, of the campaign group Parents Outloud, which represents thousands of families, said that many parents had no faith in the ability of government to keep information on its databases secure. “It is a major concern that 400,000 people will have access to the information. After you allow for staff turnover, you will probably be able to double that number within a very short time,” she told The Times. “We know many information databases have had information go missing.” Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that providing confidential passwords to 400,000 staff and then giving out further passwords as staff left and new ones joined was a recipe for disaster. “Either large numbers of people who are supposed to have a ContactPoint password will not have one, or the ContactPoint password will be on a yellow Post-it note stuck on the receptionist's computer for all to see. It speaks of bad security engineering,” he said. The database is designed to allow schools, social workers and health professionals to alert one another to signs of neglect or abuse. Ministers say it will save them five million hours a year struggling to contact one another. “All the professionals will have an enhanced CRB [Criminal Records Bureau] check and require a user ID, password, token and PIN. No case information will be held on ContactPoint and it will be impossible to download the contents,” Baroness Morgan of Drefelin, the Children's Minister, said yesterday. However, both main opposition parties criticised the latest disclosure. Michael Gove, the Shadow Education Secretary, said that with information unlikely to remain fully secure, children could be left in more danger. “ContactPoint will increase the risk of abuse to vulnerable children. The Government has shown it cannot be trusted to protect the information in large databases,” he said. “Creating more bureaucracy with sensitive information accessible to hundreds of thousands of people will do nothing to improve child protection. We need to invest in people, not more Big Brother systems.” David Laws, the Liberal Democrat children's spokesman, said: “This intrusive and expensive project needs to be scrapped. The fact that the roll-out has already been delayed because of technical issues does not bode well.” ContactPoint has been established in response to a key recommendation of the Laming Inquiry into the death in 2000 of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié. It emerged during the inquiry that many different services who came in contact with the child had had suspicions about abuse which, had they been shared, may have raised the alarm. |
| LE
GUIDE-ANNUAIRE | Commande
| Commande
express sécurisée | Documentation|
Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
|
| Le
nouveau sirop-typhon : déplacements de populations ? chèque-éducation
? ou non-scolarisation ? |
| Pluralisme
scolaire et "éducation alternative" | Jaune
devant, marron derrière : du PQ pour le Q.I. |
| Le
lycée "expérimental" de Saint-Nazaire |
Le
collège-lycée "expérimental" de Caen-Hérouville|
| L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Freinet
dans (?) le système "éducatif" (?) |
| Changer
l'école | Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop !|
L'école
Vitruve |
| Colloque
Freinet à ... Londres | Des
écoles publiques "expérimentales" |
| 68
- 98 : les 30 P-l-eureuses | Et
l'horreur éducative ? |