ContactPoint
The Department for Education has announced that ContactPoint will be decommissioned on 6th August 2010. Information held both locally and nationally will be destroyed in accordance with relevant legislation.
Experience shows the potential value of a quick and reliable means of discovering whether another professional has worked with such a child. As such Ministers are exploring the practicality of a national signposting approach. This will 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. Feasibility work is continuing and the Department will provide an update to Local Authorities later in the year.
The ContactPoint Support team will remain in place until the end of August and further details are available from them on 023 8083 3284 or contactpoint@southampton.gov.uk. Email sent to this address will be monitored until the end of August.
