ContactPoint
Ministers have informed Parliament that ContactPoint will be shut down on 6 August.
ContactPoint was a national tool planned to be used to identify and contact people working with a child or young person.
Ministers do not consider that ContactPoint is the answer. They have decided to explore the practicality of a national signposting approach, which would focus on helping a strictly limited group of practitioners to find out whether a colleague elsewhere is working, or has previously worked, with the same vulnerable child.
It is now evident that development of a signposting approach along the lines desired does not require ContactPoint to be kept in operation. Ministers have accordingly decided to switch off ContactPoint and permanently decommission the database.
Where can I find out more information?
Further information about ContactPoint is available
from the
Department for Education .
You can also email
contactpoint@ealing.gov.uk or phone (020) 8825 6062.