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UK: ‘Shambles’ as council makes blunder with children in care register

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Dissent

Express & Star reports:

The council mistakenly sent the list of children, including personal information, to a number of its in-house foster carers. It has now launched an investigation into the data breach and insisted that ‘no children were put at risk’.

But County Councillor George Adamson, who is also the leader of Cannock Chase District Council, described the incident as ‘totally unacceptable’ and described the county council as a ‘shambles’.

Read more on Express & Star.

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