MP shocked by items on children’s file

Questions about the use of condoms, smoking and even the presence of pubic hair should be removed from the digital records that ministers plan to introduce for children at risk of abuse, says right-wing liberal (VVD) MP Ineke Dezentjé.


The digital files, known as EKDs, will be introduced next year for all children up to the age of 19 who come into contact with social workers.
The aim is to make sure that information about children who are considered to be at risk is properly collected and available to all healthcare and social work professionals.
Dezentjé said she was shocked by the inclusion of some items. ‘This is going too far,’ the Telegraaf reports her as saying.
Family minister André Rouvoet of the orthodox Christian ChristenUnie party who is launching the system told MPs that such details would only be recorded if it is relevant to a particular child’s case. Only school doctors and child health clinic doctors would have access to the information, he said.
MPs are due to debate the introduction of the EKD on Wednesday.

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