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28 Nov 2007

ContactPoint: the basics and the basic questions

They announced a security review of ContactPoint yesterday but the LibDems are asking for a review of whether ContactPoint is fit for purpose, and that’s surely the deeper question. The security review announcement was already planned before the HMRC debacle, I’m told. The Minister referred to HMRC in his statement to da House but the media suggestion it is a reaction to the lost CDs is misleading.

The ContactPoint team are totally into the project, feel it’s the right thing to do, and they they’re supported in that view by Barnardos’ and practitioners who just can’t wait for it. They feel the moral burden of the accidents that will happen if they don’t do it soon.

They’re also dead impressed by security arrangements lined up by the contractor CapGemini (which also does HMRC, so presumably is the real contractor behind the expensive CDs, not EDS as we’re read). It reminds me of the Ben Elton sketch visitors to Sellafiled murmuring “oooh yes, this looks very safe”. See below for what the Minister said, including a reminder of the basics

• Posted by William Heath on 28/11/07 at 7:52pm
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