Database details 'harm children'
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The growth of government databases on children can split families, says a report for the Information Commissioner.
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A "horrifying" number of organisations have breached data protection rules in the past year, a report says.
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Babies' DNA can be damaged even  before they are born if their mothers breathe polluted air,  according to a study published on Tuesday.
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Most households where kids visit do not safely store guns or household chemicals that can act as deadly poisons, new research shows.
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The public is urged to report parents suspected of neglecting their children due to drug or alcohol abuse.
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The head of the U.K. National Health Service has defended plans to build a centralized database of patient records following another embarrassing loss of personal information by the government.The U.K. Department of Health admitted this weekend that nine of its regional NHS trusts have reported losing patient data. One of the trusts, the City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, in east London, lost the medical records for about 160,000 children, according to newspaper reports. The total number of records has not been disclosed.The losses emerged as part of a wider review following similar government blunders, and have revived questions about the security of building a centralized patient records database, part of the U.K.&#39;s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). But David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS, said the project is essential and should go ahead.&quot;It&#39;s vitally important that when a doctor is sitting in front of a patient they have all the information they need at their fingertips, and that&#39;s what&#39;s been driving us through all this,&quot; Nicholson told BBC Radio 4&#39;s Today program on Monday.The proposed system will not be a single large records database, but a series of interconnected regional databases, he said. And the security system will be more rigorous than that used with most Internet banking systems, according to Nicholson.&quot;You&#39;d need a user name, a password and a smart card [to access patient records] and you would have role-controlled access,&quot; he said. &quot;So a nurse on a ward with a smart card and a password could only access a relatively small number of patient records.&quot;The information that was reported lost over the weekend was encrypted and so not vulnerable to misuse, Nicholson said.But Ross Anderson, a security expert at the University of Cambridge, told Radio 4 that whether the data is encrypted is not the main issue.&quot;One of the questions you have to ask here is not whether the data was encrypted or password protected, but why someone was able to have access to 160,000 children&#39;s records,&quot; he said. &quot;In private industry ... if someone tried to make off with hundreds of thousands of records the alarms would sound.&quot;Opposition leaders pounced on the latest misstep as evidence that the Labour government can&#39;t be trusted with its citizens&#39; data. They called for further studies to show how the proposed patient records system would protect privacy.The incident comes after the U.K.&#39;s HM Revenue and Customs lost personal records for 25 million Britons, and the Driving Standards Agency lost records for more than 3 million learner drivers.&quot;The power of technology means it can be very easy to use the information, but also very easy to lose the information,&quot; the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said on the Today program. &quot;The events of the last few weeks have woken up everybody to the importance of taking these matters seriously.&quot;&#160;
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Â· Study links to hyperactivity and bad behaviour Â· Government tells parents to check packaging
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Britain's children are being poisoned by   a "junk culture" of processed food, computer games and   over-competitive education, an influential group of authors and   experts warned on Tuesday.
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Propose switch to decentralised, interoperable databases The Tory party has put forward a rescue plan for the NHS IT system in the wake of the latest government data losses, which were revealed over the weekend. Nine English NHS trusts have owned up to large scale losses of personal data, and although in most cases the nature of this data has yet to be revealed, City &amp; Hackney Primary Care Trust reportedly mislaid the names and addresses of 160,000 children.â¦
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Details of the government's plan to tackle vulnerable children before they are born are to be revealed.
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Children who are overweight appear to be at increased risk of cancer later in life, according to an analysis of British records.
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Britain's children are being poisoned by  a "junk culture" of processed food, computer games and  over-competitive education, an influential group of children's  authors and experts warned on Tuesday.
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Text of report by Shi Jiangtao in Beijing headlined: "Website names and shames polluters" by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 15 September  The mainland's first web-based database on water pollution to be run by a non-governmental organization was unveiled yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - Children who consume high levels of diary products may have a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer in adulthood, study findings suggest.
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The lives of thousands of Holocaust victims are coming to light in a new database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to research the fate of family members and friends sent to Nazi death camps.
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Cos they know all about 'secure' databases... The government will announce plans tomorrow to give every English child an identifying number and a database entry of their school qualifications.â¦
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One in three abused babies who return to their families is harmed again, say experts.