The first steps to activate the Government’s online directory of children’s services – ContactPoint- begins today. Two security vetted officials from local authorities all over England will begin the necessary training to start operating the system. In addition, training will start in 17 LA’s in the North West and two national voluntary sector partners – Barnardo’s & KIDS – where ContactPoint will be more intensively piloted. Frontline practitioners will start training and operating the system in these areas in the spring and across the country from the summer.
As the BBC puts it – with 390,000 people having access to it it’s a data disaster waiting to happen.
