“It was no better before the unitary authority was created, either; Crewe & Nantwich was a shocking council, I used to have go and do some work for them quite regularly at one time a few years ago and I was astounded that such people could actually get paid for the bungling that they did. It was as if they'd just gone and recruited the majority of their staff from Remploy, and that includes a lot of the senior managers who I wouldn't even trust to set a video recorder properly.

Cheshire East employs too many superannuated leather 'n' sweats and old dears who need to be put out to pasture (or melted down for glue) and clearly recruitment standards are quite low - in fact less than the usual number of limbs is more likely to get you a job there. Ability counts for nothing in the public sector.”

“Cheshire East council is fast overtaking Stoke-on-Trent for being incompetent in its operation and procedures.”

“Thats one big mistake and the good rate paying peaple of cheshire east will foot the bill at the end of the day Information like this can cover the world with one wrong click and if cheshire east shack someone that could end up in court with a Wrongful dismissal case that could make the 80 k small fry”

“Oddly enough Tony I agree with you (for once) - in effect nobody has been punished for this breach of sensitive data, except the taxpayer (and a worthless apology.)

Regardless of whether the subject of the email was a real danger to children or not, the point is that we trust these bodies and the individuals employed in them to safeguard confidential information. Whether done by malice or basic stupidity, inflammatory information that should have been under control got out. If they can let something like this out, and not take any real consequences, what else might they let out? Bear in mind (for those of you who don't know) such information is not necessarily actual facts as such, like criminal convictions; it can and often does include "soft" information like assumptions regarding lifestyle, tittle-tattle from neighbours and the like. And social workers and child protection officers are not above making glaring mistakes or downright lying - it happens more often than you may realise. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

“cant fault the person responsible,if you are reading this well done...pump up the gas,thats what im saying”

“There will be a manager who is responsible in ensuring their staff are suitably trained around data protection and has clearly failed in their role. Times are hard, but people need to take responsibility for their actions & the tax payer can no longer afford to pay for others incompetence.
If the information was believed to be true around a dangerous individual working with children then it should be plastered on the front page of this half bit rag and shared on twitterbook.... But not at the cost of the tax payer!”

“Why Should the council (tax payer) have to pay. The worker mad the mistake......The worker should pay!”

“You have to remember that a council being fined is a drain on resources AKA the tax payer.

In these times of austerity I would suggest a senior officer does community service... if it's good enough for benefit claimants...”

“ahahah the council being fined for a change!

I'm sorry but this is hideous.... anyone a danger to children should be exposed.

we have enough idiots preying on our innocents in this world ...so I'm sorry if I find this a bit extreme..”