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Pixie-dust and privacy: what's happening to children's rights in England?
- Author:
- DOWTY Terri
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 22(5), September 2008, pp.393-399.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Increasingly, Information Technology is being used to identify, record and track children in England under the banners of child protection, reducing risk and improving outcomes. Discussions about the importance of a child's right to privacy have been sidelined in the rush to embrace systems that seek to expand the amount and types of information held on individuals. However, placing so much faith
Unaccompanied children seeking asylum: privacy, consent and data protection
- Authors:
- DOWTY Terri, BROWN Ian
- Publisher:
- Action on Rights for Children
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report focuses on the way in which the data of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is handled, and whether information-sharing practices conform to data protection and human rights requirements. Questionnaires were sent to 134 local authorities, and responses received from 120. The research revealed a high level of concern amongst local authority staff and refugee organisations about the way in which children’s sensitive data may be shared, both between agencies and with central government. The first section of the report considers current practice and the law regarding the procedures for the collection, storage and use of the sensitive data collected from unaccompanied children. It particularly looks at the controversy surrounding the process of assessing a child’s age, and whether these procedures comply with human rights and data protection requirements. The second section of the report examines the systems and processes used to support information storage and sharing, in particular examining the National Register of Unaccompanied Children (NRUC).