Schools secretary Ed Balls has ordered an independent assessment of security for the ContactPoint database. The database will hold the details of every child from birth to age 18. It will contain basic identifying information about all children in England from birth until age 18, along with contact details for their parents or carers and for professionals providing support services to them. The HMRC data security breach — Britains biggest — emerged on the same day that a report by the governments own children’s rights director, Roger Morgan, revealed that a survey of children had found most were worried about the safety of information on the database.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2121973/uk-data-breach-leads-to-review-of-other-databases.html