ARCH (Action on Rights for Children) have issued a useful report entitled "Child Tracking: Biometrics in Schools & Mobile Location Devices". The Register has an article about it here.
As the Report says : "The whole issue of using children’s biometrics urgently needs far closer examination and informed debate.", not least because of the way in which they are being increasingly used for 'low-level purposes' (issue of library books, school meals, &c) in a pretty much unregulated way. Of course, in the main, the underlying intention of these sorts of schemes is probably well-meaning but one cannot escape the sense that they are entered into in complete ignorance of their wider consequences and implications, especially in respect of fundamental rights. In fact one could say that this, combined with the odious Children's Index (commentary here), &c., means that ID Cards - i.e. adult surveillance - are a walk in the park compared to the degree and extent of surveillance to which this Government has subjected our children.
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