In an attempt to reduce the amount of child abuse and neglect in the UK, the British Government will soon allow 24 hour CCTV surveillance in thousands of homes that are considered to be the ‘worst’ in the country, according to the Children’s Ministry.

Currently, there are 2000 families in the monitoring program with an expected enrolment of 20,000 over the next two years costing the Government about £400 million.

Labour claimed that the monitoring devices place Britain in the list of countries who spy too much on their own citizens, but the Labour government still felt the additional monitoring of families was necessary to address problems such as malnutrition, truancy, and alcohol abuse.

Families that are monitored will be carefully watched to ensure that children are fed proper meals, have a reasonable bed time, and make it to school on a regular basis.

Ed Balls, the Children’s Secretary, said that this is a tough way to get families back where they need to be.

He also stated that the surveillance program, known as a family intervention project, should be available in all local areas to help support families that need it.

These projects are currently in existence in about half of the country’s councils, despite debate that the Government is using CCTV in too many locations, with the last uproar concerning CCTV cameras in the classroom.

Britain has about 4.2 million CCTV cameras which is about 20% of all CCTV cameras worldwide that are said to be used for safety reasons.