I can just see some nanny staters here drooling over this system about to be implemented in the UK:

Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system.

Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion in history into the role of parents.

Changes being introduced since Victoria Climbié's death from abuse include a £224 million database tracking all 12 million children in England and Wales from birth. The Government expects the programme to be operating within two years.
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Doctors, schools and the police will have to alert the database to a wide range of "concerns". Two warning flags on a child's record could start an investigation.

There will also be a system of targets and performance indicators for children's development. Children's services have been told to work together to make sure that targets are met.
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"The cause for concern indicator against a child's record is expressed in very broad language. For example, it could be cause for concern that a child is not progressing well towards his or her French GCSE."

Via Althouse.  Yeah... nothing like a big ass database to solve all the world's ills.  The "big brother" aspects of this law is already troubling enough, and my regular readers I'm sure know how I feel about that part of it.  What is even sadder is that this law was prompted by the death of a child... which given the circumstance of her death, wouldn't have been saved by this database:

Eight-year-old Victoria Climbié died in 2000 while living with her aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and her aunt's boyfriend, Carl Manning, despite having been seen by dozens of social workers, nurses, doctors and police officers.

So its not like this girl wasn't already being monitored by the government.  So now they want to add to the load of these social workers, by making them visit the homes of children all across the country who might not be eating enough veggies or keeping up with their French... so that the kids who are in real trouble, the ones being beaten and truly neglected, will have fewer resources devoted to them.  Brilliant.