ContactPoint was switched off at noon on 6 August 2010. The Government has argued that the system was disproportionate to the problem and is looking at developing other solutions.
Within two months of the switch-off all the data collected for the system is to be destroyed, although the information will still remain in the social services, education and health departments it had been gathered from.
Ministerial statement
Posted on
Fri, August 6, 2010
by Child Centred Practice