Teachers may get first ID cards - Sunday Times - Times Online:
Yuba Bessaoud and Andrew Porter.
"Teachers, childcare workers and criminals may be compelled to have identity cards years before they become mandatory for everyone else. At a private briefing in Downing Street for a group of Labour party researchers, Andy Burnham, a Home Office minister, said the government was considering forcing anyone who had to go through a criminal record check to hold an ID card. "