Department for Education (DfE) shut down ContactPoint on 6 August 2010.
The Government is continuing to consider the feasibility of a more proportionate approach to aid front line professionals to support and protect vulnerable children.
Nationally, there were significant benefits gained from the implementation work and use of ContactPoint, including:
1. Better integrated and partnership working across agencies and borders - the key objective of ContactPoint.
2. Protecting and safeguarding children - ContactPoint provided information about children’s whereabouts to safeguarding and social care teams.
3. Children Missing Education (CME) cases solved – many otherwise untraceable CME located quickly with ContactPoint.
4. Time saved for practitioners - drastically reduced time to confirm details and whereabouts of children where there is a new concern.
5. Data Quality improvements - better processes to maintain data quality in local systems.
