tend to go over-budget. Some questioned children's ability to give informed consent in their own right. Mary Marsh, chief executive of the NSPCC, wanted the database to cover the whole of the United Kingdom, not just England and Wales, saying "the information held would be only partial and potentially worse than useless". On 27 June 2006, a child protection conference, "Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected", held at the London School of Economics, reached the conclusion that the database would do nothing to prevent child abuse, and that it would undermine parents' ability to look after their children. The government rejected most of the negative criticism. The DfES said that the database would only contain basic information and "will certainly not be including any information on children's diet or school attainment". Laming had said that information for every child needs to be kept so that they would not be at risk. The government denied any possibility of function creep. They rebutted the concerns over privacy, with a spokesman for the DfES saying "we are conscious of the need to respect personal privacy". Hodge said that the database would be secure, that it would not undermine child protection and that it would help various agencies share information. Hughes said that the database would be secure and that "we are confident we are doing all we could to ensure security". The government said that they were confident that the database complied with the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act. Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, said, "the index is a proportionate response to a continuing problem and any action that helps reduce the number of children who slip through the net must be welcome". With the publication of the accreditation procedures for organisations to access ContactPoint, it became clear that the vast majority of voluntary organisations would not have been able to access ContactPoint. This meant that the majority of organisations that work with children or young people e.g. sports groups, uniformed groups and faith groups, would not be able to register their involvement, representing a real challenge for practitioners who wanted to see who was working with a particular child or young person. References External links ContactPoint Children Act 2004, Part 2, Section 12 • Children Act 2004 • Explanatory Notes to Children Act 2004 The Information Sharing Index (England) Regulations 2006 • Action on Rights for