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27 December 2012

Child protection database plans revived

A fresh Ā£8.6m initiative to co-ordinate NHS and social services data to improve child protection has been announced by the
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26 July 2010

ContactPoint to close on 6 August

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be shut down on 6 August, the government has announced. In a written
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22 June 2010

ContactPoint to be replaced

The children’s database ContactPoint is to continue to operate in a scaled down version while the government decides what should
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13 May 2010

ContactPoint to be scrapped

The controversial childrenā€™s database ContactPoint is to be scrapped by the new government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have revealed.
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20 January 2010

ContactPoint ‘suffers security breaches’

The children’s database ContactPoint has suffered at least three security breaches since its launch, according to an investigation by a
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13 October 2009

Unite calls for better IT training

Health visitors believe they are not getting enough IT training on their local electronic patient record systems, according to a
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9 October 2009

ContactPoint roll out confirmed

The national roll-out of the children’s database ContactPoint is to go ahead from later this month, the government has announced.
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18 May 2009

Professionals start using ContactPoint

Up to 800 health, education and social care professionals are to start using the national children’s database ContactPoint from today,
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1 May 2009

Conferenced in

The future of the national programme was the key topic at HC2009. Sarah Bruce reports.
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27 March 2009

Work stops again on ContactPoint

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system
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