Abuse alert system for hospitals 27 December 2012 Last updated at 02:28 An online system to identify children who may be in danger of abuse or neglect is to be created for use in hospitals across England. The £9m Child Protection Information System will alert doctors and nurses in accident and emergency departments if children are known to be at risk or had urgent treatment at other hospitals. It will be rolled out from 2015. Ministers say abuse will be identified earlier. Labour criticised the delay in replacing a database shelved in 2010. The government has said tragedies that followed missed warnings, such as the cases of Peter Connelly or Victoria Climbie, may be avoided using the resource. Under the new system, children arriving at a hospital accident and emergency or urgent care centre will be checked on the NHS computer system. That will clarify whether the youngster is on the register for children considered to be at risk, or in council care. The system is also intended to make it easier for doctors and nurses to see if patients had other emergency admissions elsewhere in the country. Labour criticism Ministers say by giving professionals the wider picture, abuse can be identified earlier. But Labour claims the coalition undermined child protection when in 2010 it scrapped a much larger child database, introduced by the previous government. Some charities have also raised concerns. They say simply sharing information alone will not be enough without better training for medical professionals to spot abuse. A national flagging system was a key recommendation of the Laming report which came out in 2003, which followed Victoria Climbie's death in 2000. It was being introduced as part of the Integrated Children's System - a national computer system that would have all children's names on with flags if there were child protection issues. It would provide information across different disciplines, with different levels of access. However, it was scrapped in 2009 following claims, following the Peter Connelly case, that the system in its early form was too cumbersome and bureaucratic. Eight-year-old Victoria died from abuse and neglect in 2000 while living with her aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and her boyfriend, Carl Manning. The child was seen by dozens of social workers, nurses, doctors and police officers before she died but all failed to spot and stop the abuse as she was tortured to death. Peter Connelly, known as Baby P or Baby Peter, died in August 2007 at home in Haringey, north London, after months of abuse which left him with more than 50 injuries. Details of his case revealed incompetence by social workers, doctors, lawyers and police. The mother of the 17-month-old boy, her boyfriend and a lodger were later jailed for causing or allowing Peter's death.