The UK government has with immediate effect cut the national survey which measures by area the emotional well being of children in England and their misuse use of drugs and alcohol amongst much else concerning their wellbeing. Details are at:

http://www.tellussurvey.org.uk/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

 To quote from that:

 “Welcome to the Tellus Portal

The Government has decided to stop the delivery of the Tellus Survey as part of its commitment to reduce the burdens which data collection imposes on schools and local authorities. The decision is with immediate effect, which means the Tellus5 survey will not be delivered as planned in the Autumn Term.

“The Tellus portal will remain live until 17 September 2010 so that schools and local authorities who participated in Tellus4 can access their data using the online analysis tool and save or print a copy of the information that they want to keep beyond this date. ”

Local authorities can only access their data – not all the data – it will be lost. Deleting the historic record is maybe even worse than not collecting in the first place.