The government has awardedCapgeminithe £40m contract to build
and host ContactPoint, an online directory to support
communications between those working with children and young
people.
The directory makes it easier to deliver more co-ordinated
services to young people. The contract was awarded by the
Department for Children, Schools and Families.
The system will be live from early 2008 and will be hosted by
Capgemini until 2014.
ContactPoint will contain only basic
identifying information about children in England, and contact
details for their parents or carers and for services working with
the child or young person.
There will be no case information and no subjective opinions
about a child or parent. Access to the system will be restricted to
authorised users who need the information as part of their job, and
who have been security-checked, trained, and have the necessary
authentication.
ContactPoint will hold records of all children in England from
birth until they reach the age of eighteen. It will extract the
basic data needed directly from national and local sources.
The data will initially come from the Department for Children,
Schools and Families, the NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CfH), the
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office for National
Statistics (ONS).
The system will be supplemented by other data sources over
time.
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